I’ve occasionally noticed ordinary comments with zero upvotes to them. Yet, our own comments are upvoted automatically whenever we make them. So for comments to have zero upvotes, either something I don’t know about is happening, or there are people who downvote their own contributions.

I can’t help but wonder, why? It seems like extra effort without a clear reason.

  • Darkassassin07
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    4 hours ago

    I can’t remember which ones exactly; but I know I’ve seen a few people mention apps that don’t upvote by default.

    I don’t think it’s a conscious effort to remove the automatic upvote.

    Though I have on rare occasion realized I said something stupid and just downvoted my post/comment instead of outright deleting it. Maybe someone will learn something from my stupidity.