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?

  • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    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.