Whenever I post or comment (collectively, “post”), it has my upvote automatically without me doing anything, so the post always starts at +1/-0.
Now I’ve seen fresh posts with +0/-0, so not even the user itself is upvoting.
I don’t really care that much about votes, but I’m curious. Is this the user removing their own upvote, a client feature, some server feature, or some other reason?
Thank you in advance.
Edit: typos
My mbin account doesn’t auto-upvote my posts or comments, and neither did my kbin account.
At the time I started using kbin, it was considered a character flaw to upvote your own content. Votes were also public.
I get paid for each downvote (by Reddit). So I’m unusually fast in hitting the Big Red Button.
skill issue
:<
I’m on Mbin and there is no auto upvote, so every comment/post starts at zero. I could be wrong but I think it actually removes the self-upvote from posts/comments if they have it.
Might be a cross post from somewhere that doesn’t have votes like Mastodon.
That
couldmay apply to posts, but I don’t think it does for comments?Yes it does. It is possible to comment on Lemmy posts from Mastodon if the posts were for some reason federated to a Mastodon server.
Ah, didn’t know that was possible. I have been in the fediverse for a few years but I’m still a newbie on the technicals.
Thanks!
I have seen it on comments too.
Some of us sometimes, & others all-the-time, remove the auto-upvote, so that our posts/comments get dealt-with neutrally:
Bandwagon-jumpers tend to downvote comments/posts which have balance-is-downvote on them.
Others do the same for upvotes.
I often find I’m voting against the herd, simplly because what I’m upvoting is an actual-point, & is impacting our world, even though what-it-is that is being pointed-out isn’t “politically acceptable” to say.
Generally I upvote MUCH more than I downvote, but as Nick Yee discovered, in his Gamer Motivations research, some people are very social, but they’re very ANTI-social: they like destroying what others are valuing.
So, it comes down to the individual-person’s motivations, AND it comes down to their frame-of-reference, both: they are independent dimensions to consider.
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Good point on dealing neutrally. I don’t care enough to remove it, though, and I just assume one upvote is a self upvote anyway.
Regarding downvotes, whenever I don’t like something, I just leave it be. I have a huge up to down vote ratio too. I only downvoted a handful of times, when it was clearly malicious.
If I’m trolling I tend to downvote my own comment, kinda like a /s
That’s /savage
Because no one wants to see their fanfic, furry, anime, drawings.
I’ve seen that and my best guess has always been the initial/self upvote got “lost in the mail” during federation. AFAIK, the post creation and the initial upvote are separate activities that need to federate. Someone correct me if I’m wrong.
If your instance is resolving a post manually that it doesn’t already know about (and it it’s not coming in from being subscribed) then it will not get the initial upvote, but I don’t think that’s what you’re referring to here.
Ah, that sounds plausible. I expected the post+upvote to be a single “packet”, but don’t know much about Lemmy internals
Sometimes if a post or comment is fetched a bit after it’s been posted, the votes for it aren’t fetched as well.
Some users delete the down vote on their comments
