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?
I got a comment that was kinda sorta in support of ai from a few days ago that got upvoted a few times. But the hive mind is wild here. I will occasionally accidentally sic 'em on someone, and if I notice it I’ll upvote them to try and fight it.