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?

  • some_kind_of_guyEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Is there a way to even know who downvoted? I’ve always thought it was an assumption

      • some_kind_of_guyEnglish
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        6 days ago

        It sounds like you’d have to go out of your way to get that info though. Which is a tad pathetic, no?

        • Gladaed@feddit.orgEnglish
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          6 days ago

          Depends. If your xom gets a constant number if downvotes suspicion is in orders.

    • RebekahWSDEnglish
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      6 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.