I’ve occasionally noticed ordinary comments with zero upvotes to them. Yet, our own comments are upvoted automatically whenever we make them. So for comments to have zero upvotes, either something I don’t know about is happening, or there are people who downvote their own contributions.

I can’t help but wonder, why? It seems like extra effort without a clear reason.

  • GreenMartian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    15 hours ago

    Most clients can show split votes. So a 0 upvote is different to 1up 1down.

    On that note, not a single person downvoted your comment 🥲