Edit: This isn’t a complaint; just an observation.

Totally random thought, but I see so many people wandering around down voting regular posts that are pretty benign. I also see this a lot on another message board that I’m on.

Disagreeing with people is totally fine, and down voting them as a form of disagreeing makes total sense. But with the nature of some of the posts, down voting just seems completely pointless, so I’m wondering if it’s just trolls going around being negative. 

I’m going to preemptively down vote this post. 

  • @[email protected]
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    418 hours ago

    Some people do it to boost their own post by extension. ie: they post, upvote theirs with alt accounts, downvote all others.

    • @[email protected]
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      9 hours ago

      I know what you meant i just had a vision of you reading posts and just throwing change as far as you can

  • themeatbridge
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    219 hours ago

    Sometimes I write something I know will be controversial. Sometimes I write something I’m surprised is controversial, but I see it from a different angle and I understand. Sometimes I’m just flat wrong and the downvotes teach me something.

    And then sometimes I write something so benign that I assume any downvotes are coming from people so angry about the controversial thing I wrote that they clicked on my profile and downvoted something else to vent their frustration.

    • loafOPM
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      519 hours ago

      I wanted to keep the downvoting theme going and downvote you because it’s funny, but I can’t make myself do it.

      But yeah, I get what you’re saying. Oddly enough, I’ve seen downvotes on random things like pictures of someone’s dog, or something like that. It’s like, who can downvote an adorable dog?