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?
If you get a lot of down votes, legitimately can’t figure out why, and want to understand then it’s reasonable to ask.
If you get 3-4 down votes and ask then you need to get offline. I’ve seen people here ask after two down votes, at which point they deserve to be piled on.