Post #1929204

I think you’re making an easy mistake to make. You see an account with no comments and assume it was created by some shadow organisation just to downvote things. But what you need to understand is, 99% of users on any social media are lurkers. 90% of people just browse. 9% of people browse and vote. 0.9% of people browse, vote, and comment. And 0.1% of people actually make regular posts. So 9/10 people who downvote your posts, just organically, are people who never comment. Because that’s how social media works. Rimu’s Piefed moderation tools can help somewhat. Rimu put in an “attitude” score that shows how often a user up/downvotes. But even that can mess up. When I told one friend about piefed’s attitude feature, She said “But I only vote when a post is actually breaking the rules. So I can be punished for voting? Okay, then I just won’t even vote on piefed”. That’s the truth about this stuff: There are billions of people out there using social media in a way you will never be able to relate to. Because everyone is different.