Ok, so I’ve been here almost two months now. And I’m a frequent commenter. What I have noticed is that almost every single comment I make gets exactly 1 downvote. Regardless of where, regardless of content. Doesn’t matter what I say. I could say “Puppies are snuggly!” and it would get one downvote.
This leads me to believe there’s a bot (or maybe a series of bots) who go around and make sure everything gets downvotes. I don’t see the point of that.
Look, sometimes I make comments that people ACTUALLY don’t agree with. I made a joke comment about trump and biden being young unheard of up and comers in the political world that haven’t reached drinking age yet. I thought it was funny, but last I checked it had more downvotes than upvotes. Ok, fair enough. That joke bombed. I’ll take the L on that one.
But to downvote everything across the board? It’s hard to tell when my material is just barely landing, or just barely not landing…as opposed to now assuming the downvote is a bot and I can’t trust the negitive reaction.
So, maybe this post could serve as a brainstorm session for how to combat this very minor problem. I’m not a techie with any knowledge of how bots operate, let alone how to stop them. But I’m sure others on this forum do. So lets hash this thing out!
Here’s a good example.
https://lemmy.world/comment/10869251
Posted on a post that was last commented on 26 days ago. I post that comment, and now within 2 minutes, downvote. Another different comment in the same topic, same thing, within 5 minutes.
I would assume “on the ropes” was a reference to Andre being a wrestler. Don’t think it was meant to be about his death.
He made it sound like it was a dark joke that he was appologizing for. To my knowledge Andre didn’t get involved in anything dark. So death is the first thing that comes to mind for me. I probably am wrong, because either way I still don’t get why the joke would be funny in either case.
this doesn’t seem to be targeted against you, just someone not liking the comment. some people order their feed by e.g. active, so such cases will show up quickly.