I’ve occasionally noticed ordinary comments with zero upvotes to them. Yet, our own comments are upvoted automatically whenever we make them. So for comments to have zero upvotes, either something I don’t know about is happening, or there are people who downvote their own contributions.
I can’t help but wonder, why? It seems like extra effort without a clear reason.
As others have mentioned, mbin doesn’t auto-upvote. I didn’t even know that Lemmy does apparently. Seems like something that really ought to be standardized across platforms, because now it feels like mbin is at a ‘disadvantage’.
IMO, ideally you just shouldn’t be able to vote on your own posts/comments at all.
My suspicions are that the post with no votes are not from other Lemmy instances, but rather from other federated platforms.
Mbin defaults to 0 by default, have to upvote manually.
I have noticed that I sometimes accudentaly swipe to vote on a comment when trying to scroll, the most common is to remove the upvote.
This happens on Voyager
People on Mbin and Kbin do not automatically upvote their own posts. I would guess at least some of those posts were because of that.
If one person down votes, will a comment not have zero points?
Some instances (kbin.earth in my case, which runs on mbin) show upvotes and downvotes separately. Your comment looks like this to me
My question answered 🙂
Sometimes I realize a comment is dumb or off-topic. Deletion is the coward’s way.
Some clients allow the self auto-upvote to be set to off.
Will test and edit. Ill leave my automatic upvote on, so first person to read this please downvote this comment
Edit: no no guys, stop upvoting 🤣
Edit 2: sorry OP, guess i cant test out my theory, which was that if you leave your upvote, but get downvoted once, it shows up as 0
Most clients can show split votes. So a 0 upvote is different to 1up 1down.
On that note, not a single person downvoted your comment 🥲
Accept our love.
Ha ha! No.
I only do it when I wanna screenshot something and see it has 70, 43, or 421 upvotes. Or if I’m sending it to a friend who has a lucky number and my comment is one vote higher
Does kbin/mbin do self auto upvoting?
Nope. This is the first I’ve heard of auto upvotes.
It does not
I can’t remember which ones exactly; but I know I’ve seen a few people mention apps that don’t upvote by default.
I don’t think it’s a conscious effort to remove the automatic upvote.
Though I have on rare occasion realized I said something stupid and just downvoted my post/comment instead of outright deleting it. Maybe someone will learn something from my stupidity.
Accidental? A wayward tap.
Accidentally or for some of them sweet, sweet sympathyUpvotes
