If you don’t like it, block the bot?
I’m confused on why people would downvote threads that account for most of the content in this community
Some people are misanthropes, some people misclick, some people just want to get a reaction
I feel like misclicks don’t get much consideration. I know I personally misclick on a little less than 1% of posts I look at, usually because I’m scrolling quickly or transferring my phone from one hand to the other or something, and end up fat-fingering the button. Sometimes I notice and fix it, but I know I don’t catch all of them. I do put a little bit of effort into being careful though, I know not everyone does.
For this reason, I always consider that maybe 1-5% of total votes might potentially be misclicks, or just people not paying much attention, and I don’t really consider them. I figure misclicks will be split 50/50 between up and downvotes, with the downvotes being much more noticeable in general, due to human biases towards negative reinforcement.
Some people downvote because others care about downvotes
Lemmygrad is full of not very nice people. You guys should stay off this evil gay western internet thing.
Daily threads are dumb.
I’d rather not block a bot.
There’s nothing complex going on here. Also, to agree with the other guy, this call out is creepy as hell.
Inferring that info is maybe not as straight-forward as you’re assuming.
As for being called out, it was a dick move in response to a dick move. I’m surprised you guys aren’t more robust in the face of someone disagreeing with you.
I get that in the community I mod StopDrinking. I post a daily checkin. If you don’t like seeing my post, block the community. Some of us need the post to be accountable to ourselves and each other.
It’s a fair question, but it makes me want to ask why downvotes even matter to anyone. They are usually outnumbered by upvotes in the first place, & aren’t even federated across instances (at least on Kbin).
