What sort of post or comment gets you downvoted the most? Especially if you don’t think it’s bad behavior in the first place, or don’t care. Does not have to be on Lemmy, but we are here… One of the good things about Lemmy IMO is that it’s small enough to see the posts that are unpopular. If you do “Top Day” on most channels, you cash reach the bottom, see what people here don’t like.
As far as comments, attempting to rebut the person who is telling me my post sucks, is what gets me into negative numbers most often. The OP is going to voite it down, of course, and nobody else cares, usually.

  • @otp
    6•6 months ago

    If someone is downvoted, someone else comments and gets upvoted, and you reply to the upvoted comment to defend the downvoted comment, you will get downvoted. Probably 95% of the time. It doesn’t matter how right they are, or how mistaken the upvoted one is.

    Especially getting into an argument with the upvoted one and hanging onto the downvoted one’s side.

    Also, being downvoted is likely to get you downvoted more. That contributes to the above effect.

    Without pre-existing up/downvotes, the best way to get downvoted is to be needlessly aggressive without being funny.

    To get a downvote from me, just try to use “of” as a verb. (E.g., “would of”)!

      • @otp
        2•6 months ago

        Honestly, “woulda” is fine. It’s like gotta’, it’s a typed out version of how something we actually say would sound. It doesn’t look like it’s trying to be a real word.

        “Would of” is not something that anyone says. It’s like mixing up “your” and “you’re”, except worse imo because it’s like “of” is being used as an adverb/verb/auxiliary verb or something.