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Or i just pissed off someone very dedicated .

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I checked and yours is random, so it's just the type of post that attract minor amount of downvote. Just ignore it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago
[–] dohpaz42 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Eh. Looking through your post and comment history, you don’t have a lot of stuff excessively downvoted. This post has a few downvotes (probably people being funny given the topic) and one you deleted that apparently you struck a nerve with.

I’d chalk it up to “shit happens”. You’re not always going to be agreeable. It’s okay. I’ve seen some of your interactions in the lemmyapps community, and while I personally may not agree with you all the time, I don’t find it offensive enough to downvote.

You’re doing fine. ☺️

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

No i am not talking about the lemmy apps thread it was controversial as fuck . I was talking about the people down voting movie trailers and questions

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Ah sorry that was me.

I see movie trailers as ads so I instinctively downvote it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

I can't even tell you to fuck off because you are so honest.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (4 children)

you can check out who is doing the downvoting on mbin/kbin instances. its public.

i checked a few and it always seems pretty random

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Kbin doesn’t federate downvotes from other instances though, so you can only see the downvotes made through Kbin. I believe for Lemmy, the only way to see the identities of voters is through direct database access. Maybe some third party apps show that though?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

mbin federates downvotes.. forgot that kbin is kinda behind now

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I figured it was a conscious design decision. Maybe it just doesn't work, idk. It's kind of nice not seeing them though I am curious sometimes and will look on other instances.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

On KBin I believe that it is (or at least was a bug that became a feature). There have been posts about it strongly urging Ernest not to change it and he's said he'll open it up to discussion before making major changes to it, if my recollection is accurate.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The vote federation is different though, not sure if it's just downvotes that don't transfer but you can be downvoted on lemmy and it may not show on Kbin. Looking at OP's account here doesn't show a pattern of being downvoted, for instance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

kbin maybe, but mbin federates downvotes https://moist.catsweat.com

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

However, as they don't federate downvotes (at least kbin.social doesn't) you can only see local ones so this wouldn't help OP.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

they could with an alt on an mbin, like https://moist.catsweat.com

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Huh so not bots ?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Downvotes dont even matter.. Sure they push down your comments but if you write good stuff, others will upvote it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well us admins can see every upvote/downvote now so if there’s posts in question we can compare those and figure that out fairly quickly.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My entire history is a question 😂

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well you don’t have many posts so it was easy to look at real quick and there was only one person that downvoted you more than once.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Check my bio i have 2 other accounts the @THE_[email protected] one used to be the main now @THE_[email protected] is the main.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Hard to say. Making a downvote bot wouldn't be hard, so might be.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I was wondering the same, doubt that we both pissed someone off. But who knows?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I have definetly pissed people off but everytime i post within 5 minute there is a down vote and some things i post are not even controversial .

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well I have noticed it with my own and comments from others. Like someone saying something completely friendly/neutral and there is always that 1 downvote. Only 1.

I don't really mind the downvotes themselves, but if people disagree with something, please say it! This is why we are here. To discuss things (in a friendly manner). I can't learn anything new or think out of the box if people just downvote and leave.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Exactly what gets on my nerve and downvotes just burries your post if something you need to know is urgent

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If your need to know something is urgent, lemmy is not the place to go. That's probably why it gets downvoted.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Nah i come here after i search the web including reddit . Sometimes your problems are so unique no one had answered it yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Some people use apps which hide posts they have interacted with. A downvote counts as interaction so people in turn then liberally downvote nearly everything. Yes it's unhelpful and dumb. Solution, use kbin and at least you can see who downvoted you! (Except I don't think downvotes are federated).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Or they could use app like jerboa or something that marks read on scroll