Bot downvotes. I used to get them all the time whenever I called out T-shirt scammers in my main sub. Those comments had up to ~50 downvotes SECONDS after posting them, absolutely no chance that real people were involved in the process.
They do that to discourage users from talking back. It works on most redditors that actually care for Karma or don’t realize that they just triggered a bot response and think the backslash is real.
PS/EDIT: …also, the scammers usually had a couple of spare alt accounts interacting with their main post, trying to create the illusion that a bunch of people are defending the OP when in reality there is only a single guy behind the scam. I wouldn’t be surprised if something simlar happened here.
Bot downvotes. I used to get them all the time whenever I called out T-shirt scammers in my main sub. Those comments had up to ~50 downvotes SECONDS after posting them, absolutely no chance that real people were involved in the process.
They do that to discourage users from talking back. It works on most redditors that actually care for Karma or don’t realize that they just triggered a bot response and think the backslash is real.
PS/EDIT: …also, the scammers usually had a couple of spare alt accounts interacting with their main post, trying to create the illusion that a bunch of people are defending the OP when in reality there is only a single guy behind the scam. I wouldn’t be surprised if something simlar happened here.