[Meta] Do you think there's a downvote bot in this community?
I see a lot of posts here with zero or negative total votes. I posted one just a bit ago and it went to zero pretty quickly. I don’t personally care, but it seems curious. It’s not like this is a political community or something divisive. What would make someone downvote before they even know what the song is?
There are a lot of posts that are just a picture of a person (or a train, for some reason). I can see those getting legitimately downvoted because they seem too vague to guess a song title.
If there is a downvote bot, given that Lemmy is federated, it should be possible for a server operator to detect that kind of activity.
I thought about that - those posts big me, too, but if you scan through it doesn’t appear that it’s confined to those. In fact, the one I posted that got quickly downvoted isn’t one of those.
Is there a prolific poster that’s a spanner, multiposter, troll or otherwise a magnet for downvotes? That might skew a whole community if it’s small volume otherwise.
(Yes, that was autocorrected from spammer, but it was just as good if not better so I didn’t fix it.)
There have been times when someone has submitted a number of entries in a short time. I didn’t think to the level where someone who wasn’t interested would be annoyed, but maybe? We’re pretty much spanner-free though.
I think some people have the setting on where when they interact with a post, that hides it from ever being shown to them again. And the quickest way to interact and hide something you don’t want to see would be the downvote button.
That would explain why it’s only ever a few downvotes here and there, compared to when someone posts something actually unpopular or offensive and it gets mass downvoted.
It’s not just anti AI. If you care to look, the downvotes do not occur in the other AI communities on Lemmy. It’s mainly here and one of the main reasons is that people don’t understand these images are part of a game and not supposed to be art so they get downvoted pretty quickly for quality reasons. Other reasons are content, some people consider the posts to be spam (yes, they do get reported). But in general, assholes are gonna asshole.
Huh, could be. Now that you say that, I remember there was a thread here where someone said they always downvote AI stuff, but never read what this community was about, and once they did they thought it was a reasonable use. Maybe it’s just that kind of thing.
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