Sorry if it’s a dumb question. I’m not even knocking or shaming, I just think they’re really funny and want to see more if you know of them. Not accounts that downvote, accounts that ONLY downvote. Rare ones. Like weapons-grade haters.
I’d collect them in my user tags. And like, just observe what they respond to.
I do that.
I want to see ACCURATE vote-stats on my comments, NOT with the “self-esteem-plushie” self-upvote.
I find accuracy-of-view much more valuable than social-esteem’s “cushioning”.
Were I to code a fediverse-server it’d have no means of upvoting/downvoting one’s own posts or comments: everything would start from zero, right where it ought, for accuracy-of-view.
( emotional-disinformation is a category/kind of disinformation, & it-too is a comfort-addiction among too-many of our world.
The older I get, the more-ruthless I have to become, in order to cut-through all the disinformation-gunk that humankind’s snuffing itself, its viability with.
Emotionally-comforting-disinformation is disinformation exactly as “paper mills” are scientific disinformation. )
Sometimes I forget to so-so, but every now & then, I’ll go through my profile, removing any polluting upvotes.
Accuracy’s better than pseudovalidity/comfort.
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To be fair, people don’t undo their default upvote on their posts because of self-esteem, it’s just not noticing. You are right that a more authentic system though would simply not have any default upvotes, and additionally - not allow the OP to upvote their own posts./comments.