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.
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
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Ha ha! No.
My suspicions are that the post with no votes are not from other Lemmy instances, but rather from other federated platforms.
Some clients allow the self auto-upvote to be set to off.
Accidentally or for some of them sweet, sweet sympathyUpvotes
If I post a comment and someone afterward posts a better comment that renders mine superfluous, I’ll usually delete my comment to give the better one more visibility. But if someone has already replied to my comment, I’ll leave it for the sake of context, but downvote it to make sure people see the better comment first.
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