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?
The fediverse has an extremely bad case of the GroupThink.
No, you don’t see. They are all very smart geniuses who know better than you. You ignorant fool!
They are just trying to ENLIGHTEN you to the error of your ways!