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.

  • @[email protected]
    35•11 hours ago

    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

    • @[email protected]
      7•9 hours ago

      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 🥲