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jogoso2014 t1_ivy85ej wrote

The downvoted in this are weird.

What is there to downvote exactly?

Show some backbone and speak up lol.

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dirtbandit101 OP t1_ivy8q0r wrote

I read awhile that there are just some lurkers on subreddits that downvote new posts so they don’t reach the popular page, or maybe they just thought this was a shit question but it happens quite a lot

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pm_me_reason_to_livx t1_ivya95q wrote

the whole downvote thing is still such a mystery to me and i've been here for years. everything gets downvoted... it seems automatic. are these real people, or is it bots are something??

and i question if it's real people because i never use the downvote button... i sometimes forget it's there so it's baffling when people use it for legit posts. or maybe some people just think of or use reddit differently? like... "oh i don't like this post, downvote!"?

anyways, i think a great solution for this is to just make it compulsory for users to comment why they downvote something whenever they do.

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