Preface: Love this instance, happy to be here and this isnt a complaint just an observation.

OK so I mod a few communities across several instances, big and small. 3 on this very instance, I have noticed a pattern that posts on this instance tend to get a consistent early downvote count.

This might be my bad observations or the type of posts I see so I’d love to hear if anyone else has noticed the same.

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Somebody wrote some down vote bots earlier, just to downvote everything… I think a couple of them got banned, but maybe they put them back up…

    I believe a lot of the down vote behavior is the classic " I disagree ". Though I wish people used downvotes more sparingly, and to indicate they think somebody is not contributing at all to the conversation.

    I do think the down votes have a chilling effect on some people, especially people who like to lurk, they see a bunch of downloads on a conversation they’re unlikely to say anything.