I’m very curious about the reasoning different people use when deciding to downvote a post or comment. Often, when something gets “heavily” downvoted, the OP will ask some variation of “why the downvotes?”. This is sometimes answered with sincere criticism, but sometimes is received even more poorly than the original offending post.
Do you downvote people who ask “why the downvotes?”? What informs the decision?
Yes.
You don’t reach people who downvote you by editing after the fact and it just seems like you are butthurt.
When there is a dog pile you move on. Maybe people didn’t get your phrasing or you didn’t do enough to be understood. Or you spat an uncomfortable truth.
Also @ing people who downvote you is really rude. Don’t do that unless it is a pattern for them to downvote your content or they are systematically downvoting e.g. queer content.
Is there a way to even know who downvoted? I’ve always thought it was an assumption
Yeah. Gotta know for federation reasons.
It sounds like you’d have to go out of your way to get that info though. Which is a tad pathetic, no?
Depends. If your xom gets a constant number if downvotes suspicion is in orders.
Yep, you can check on something like lemvotes and it says who voted which way. It’s open information but most clients don’t show it I think.