[Meta] People who downvote the daily thread, why?

Some people are misanthropes, some people misclick, some people just want to get a reaction

Some people downvote because others care about downvotes

I get that in the community I mod StopDrinking. I post a daily checkin. If you don’t like seeing my post, block the community. Some of us need the post to be accountable to ourselves and each other.

Sorry, fellow mod. This thread is kind of getting out of hand, excuse my judgment but I'm going to be locking it.

Before I do so, I want to make a few things clear...

• Downvoting is what one might call a public function. It falls within one's supposed right to do so.
• Weaponizing any system to further this, however, is against site rules.
• As far as etiquette goes, it still does speak for one's character what one sees as likable.
• You are not defined by your critics. I enjoy discussing all of your interesting points of view.
• Since this seems to be such a grand issue, I wonder how many of you have heard of !downvotedtooblivion@lemm.ee

With love from Mod Leni.

I have my stats disabled usually cause they kind of manipulate my emotions and views and what is correct or not.

Better to focus on the factual content of the comment or post than on the up or down points.

Reddit was really bad about this because you constantly had a number to your name and it was addicting to score them points and defeated the point of normal discussion.

It’s a fair question, but it makes me want to ask why downvotes even matter to anyone. They are usually outnumbered by upvotes in the first place, & aren’t even federated across instances (at least on Kbin).

Well, it's public info, so maybe the downvoters of this post will respond (with words):

@P34C0CK@lemmy.world
@inge@discuss.tchncs.de
@zcd@lemmy.ca
@Parasite_Messiah@lemm.ee
@DrakeRichards@lemmy.world.
@doublejay1999@lemmy.world
@absentthereaper@lemmygrad.ml
@Ward@lemmy.dbzer0.com
@thesmokingman@programming.dev
@hightrix@lemmy.world
@antizero@lemmynsfw.com

Okay. That was the last one. I won't do that again - I just wanted to verify that whether you ask generally, or ask directly, people who downvote won't say why. Perhaps because there isn't really a good reason why you might downvote a post in a community dedicated to casual conversation.

The only reply was one I'll never see (because the instance I'm on is defed'd with lemmygrad), and downvotes for my comment of course.

Interestingly, there's no record of anyone reversing their downvote for OP's post - so the idea that accidental swipes play a part seems fanciful.

The real question is do any of these people contribute anything of value to Lemmy, and - if not - why anyone should give a shit about whatever it is they're trying to communicate with their downvotes.