I’m very curious about the reasoning different people use when deciding to downvote a post or comment. Often, when something gets “heavily” downvoted, the OP will ask some variation of “why the downvotes?”. This is sometimes answered with sincere criticism, but sometimes is received even more poorly than the original offending post.
Do you downvote people who ask “why the downvotes?”? What informs the decision?
I don’t downvote often but if the reply was just why the downvotes im not sure I would reply back. if I reply or not depends on my level of engagement so the content im replying to may need to be a bit more complex or in depth. granted you don’t know why so the comment is fair but if I downvote something it likely had something obviously bad about it because again. I don’t do it often.