Edit: This isn’t a complaint; just an observation.

Totally random thought, but I see so many people wandering around down voting regular posts that are pretty benign. I also see this a lot on another message board that I’m on.

Disagreeing with people is totally fine, and down voting them as a form of disagreeing makes total sense. But with the nature of some of the posts, down voting just seems completely pointless, so I’m wondering if it’s just trolls going around being negative. 

I’m going to preemptively down vote this post. 

  • SGforce@lemmy.ca
    4·
    18 hours ago

    Some people do it to boost their own post by extension. ie: they post, upvote theirs with alt accounts, downvote all others.

  • retrolaseredEnglish
    21·
    14 hours ago

    I toss a coin for any post I read. My opinion is statistics.

  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
    42·
    19 hours ago

    Sometimes I write something I know will be controversial. Sometimes I write something I’m surprised is controversial, but I see it from a different angle and I understand. Sometimes I’m just flat wrong and the downvotes teach me something.

    And then sometimes I write something so benign that I assume any downvotes are coming from people so angry about the controversial thing I wrote that they clicked on my profile and downvoted something else to vent their frustration.