I’ve posted some controversial stuff, and I understand why I would be getting down voted for that. But I see some of my posts and comments are in the negatives for seemingly no reason at all? I don’t really care about the karma because I can’t see it anyway, but I’m worried that comments and posts here are gonna get downvoted and dismissed without further consideration solely because of the negative score, like what would happen on reddit. I suspect someone, a troll, a bot, or a misclick downvoted my comment or post and people just followed along downvoting in turn. It’s either that, or I genuinely said something bad but I can’t figure for the life of me that it is indeed bad. My prime example is my support post for commenting under certain posts, why did that get the downvotes? And I see this kind of thing sometimes on other people’s comments as well, and I’m baffled, is it me who can’t understand why something is bad, or hive mind came here too?
Huh, I looked and also didn’t see many posts in the negative. Then I clicked through to the original instance, and the same posts have completely different scores. Like one post was (+22/-10) on Kbin, and -52 on Lemmy.
Let’s all make a test, what does this post look like from your instances:
Coming up as 35 / 0 for me. Strange that none of the downvotes are coming into kbin
I’m on kbin too and I can’t see the downvotes OP is talking about either.
I think we’re way more sparing of downvotes at kbin because we can all see exactly who upvoted or downvoted what.
But that doesn’t explain why we can’t even see the Lemmys downvotes.
O score. +34, -34.
+35/-0 for me.
Just shows 33 points for me, both on pc and on the sync app
+2 (38 up/36 down).
36+, my home instance doesn’t allow downvotes. https://wayfarershaven.eu/post/115735
+35/-37
+34/no downvotes shown
+3 / -34
I’m on Lemmy and I don’t see any points in the negatives, though there is one post on 0 right now