I see a lot of posts here with zero or negative total votes. I posted one just a bit ago and it went to zero pretty quickly. I don’t personally care, but it seems curious. It’s not like this is a political community or something divisive. What would make someone downvote before they even know what the song is?

  • eezeebee@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    I think some people have the setting on where when they interact with a post, that hides it from ever being shown to them again. And the quickest way to interact and hide something you don’t want to see would be the downvote button.

    That would explain why it’s only ever a few downvotes here and there, compared to when someone posts something actually unpopular or offensive and it gets mass downvoted.