Preface: Love this instance, happy to be here and this isnt a complaint just an observation.

OK so I mod a few communities across several instances, big and small. 3 on this very instance, I have noticed a pattern that posts on this instance tend to get a consistent early downvote count.

This might be my bad observations or the type of posts I see so I’d love to hear if anyone else has noticed the same.

  • mad_asshatter@lemmy.world
    3·
    4 months ago

    There are definitely instances with early downvotes, yours being one of them.

    And even though “it doesn’t matter”, it’s still mildly-infuriating to see obviously innocuous/irreverent posts/comments being dogpiled, nevermind the innocent/informative ones seemingly because “I disagree!”.

    • spidervl@aussie.zone
      5·
      4 months ago

      it’s still mildly-infuriating to see obviously innocuous/irreverent posts/comments being dogpiled

      I think early downvoters are just trying to induce others to follow them because they’re assholes and have nothing better to do. Unfortunately, it’s pretty common with both Reddit and Lemmy.

      • mad_asshatter@lemmy.world
        5·
        4 months ago

        It seems to be more prevalent on lemmy - if the post or comment gets 3 or 4 downvotes before it even gains traction, then it’s dogpiled.

        You can see it irl yourself. Post the same comment in a different thread (within the same post!), and watch the difference.

        • spidervl@aussie.zone
          4·
          4 months ago

          It seems to be more prevalent on lemmy

          I’ve noticed this with the two largest Lemmy instances – .ml and .world.

          • mad_asshatter@lemmy.world
            3·
            4 months ago

            I normally use my .world login, and there are 2 instances specifically on my regular scroll (all, active) that are at 0 or less mere minutes in…

            • spidervl@aussie.zone
              3·
              4 months ago

              That’s weird. Someone else here in the comments section mentioned downvote bots, so it might be that (?)

          • harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            3·
            4 months ago

            I don’t mod any communities but I do put in the effort to curate my “All” feed and most of the users & communities I block come from those 2 instances. Toss hexbear on there and that’s almost 100%.

            The .world is tricky bc it is such a large instance and that’s where many new lemmings land so it’s always going to be messy.

            I still have my world account but never use it. I prefer being part of db0.

            • spidervl@aussie.zone
              2·
              4 months ago

              I don’t mod any communities but I do put in the effort to curate my “All” feed and most of the users & communities I block come from those 2 instances. Toss hexbear on there and that’s almost 100%.

              I specifically avoid all three of them as well, along with Beehaw.

    • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      Somebody wrote some down vote bots earlier, just to downvote everything… I think a couple of them got banned, but maybe they put them back up…

      I believe a lot of the down vote behavior is the classic " I disagree ". Though I wish people used downvotes more sparingly, and to indicate they think somebody is not contributing at all to the conversation.

      I do think the down votes have a chilling effect on some people, especially people who like to lurk, they see a bunch of downloads on a conversation they’re unlikely to say anything.