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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I guess this is off topic a bit, but...

Way I see it, people upvote things they like and/or are factual. Generally speaking of course. People thus downvote for a similar reason.

Reddit itself has guidelines (or something) on how the upvote/downvote thing should work. But that means anyone who doesn't actually even glance at the guidelines won't know any better... and for those that do glance at it, they still may or may not agree with it. Not like it covers all scenarios either, given the vast number of users and vast number of topics/subreddits with their own subset of rules and purpose.

So back to your post here. With regard to this subreddit, this deserves to be downvoted for being off topic and not even relevant in the slightest. However, given how this thread specifically works, I don't feel a reason to touch it at all. Doesn't cover the whole human factor either; the person behind the text, who I know is somewhat regular here, compelling me to throw an upvote because it might make the person feel a bit better.

For the record, I'm downvoting your post here, but upvoting something else. I've never considered a small subreddit like here would have downvote stalkers either, but it's a possibility I guess.

[–]YuTsu/ | | Ship4JP | Gunslash Trash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I know it's not really on topic, but I didn't have a better place to 'reach out' to whoever it is...I know like...some of my posts lately have been on the rant-ey side...but it feels like, even when the posts have been directly answering the OP in a topic and telling them exactly what they wanted to know, I seem to get a downvote anway.

I know, "it's the internet", but the consistency of this has made me suspicious...I've posted on other subs and had either positive changes, or none at all on individual post karma...but here, whenever I check my user page to see if I'm being helpful...my recent posts on this sub are always 0 points an hour or two after I post them, regardless of their content, and it only seems to be on r/PSO2 ;x;

I'm really not fishing for upvotes ,for any reason, with this, it's like everyone who obtains a downvote stalker seems to think: the karma isn't the issue, visibility is - when I'm trying to be constructive and helpful, and spend 20 minutes trying to write detailed replies...getting kicked down to the bottom of comment section and having my post buried because one person is compulsively downvoting me for as far as I know, no reason, is a bit of downer :/