Mastodawn

Why do some users have zero upvotes on their new posts/comments?

https://sh.itjust.works/post/54653721

Why do some users have zero upvotes on their new posts/comments? - sh.itjust.works

Whenever I post or comment (collectively, “post”), it has my upvote automatically without me doing anything, so the post always starts at +1/-0. Now I’ve seen fresh posts with +0/-0, so not even the user itself is upvoting. I don’t really care that much about votes, but I’m curious. Is this the user removing their own upvote, a client feature, some server feature, or some other reason? Thank you in advance. Edit: typos

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Pamasich

Whenever I post or comment (collectively, "post"), it has my upvote automatically without me doing anything, so the post always starts at +1/-0.

Lemmy is lying to you there, to trick you into not upvoting your own post. That upvote doesn't exist, the page just pretends it does.

Proof? Mbin displays who upvoted a post. Here's the page for this post. Notice how you aren't among the list.

Upvotes - Why do some users have zero upvotes on their new posts/comments? - kbin.earth

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