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

  • narp@feddit.org
    1·
    3 hours ago

    It’s a matter of influence. People just tend to believe in “popular” opinions.

    If someone asks: “What’s the best vacuum cleaner?” And there is a highly upvoted answer, people tend to believe it as true.

    Same goes for political opinions btw., that’s why dessalines bans users from lemmy.ml for downvoting.