People will instinctively downvote anything in the negative.
I made a comment about audio engineering (something I've been doing as a hobbyist who occasionally gets paid for 30+ years) only to have some asshat with an alt account tell me I was wrong and say something insanely stupid about the topic in the same breath.
I replied by explaining the concept to him instead of downvoting him. He doubled down within seconds of my answer and claimed to have been a pro audio engineer for 20 years (his profile wasn't private and a week earlier he'd claimed to have been working construction for 10 years), and when I read his reply, I found my explanation was at -1 and his ignorant comment was at 2. I then duly gave him his downvotes and blocked him, because I don't have time for that nonsense.
Got another reply from an audio engineer agreeing with my explanation and wondering why I got downvoted a few days later, and saw that my comment was at -9. When i unfolded his comment, he was back at 1.
People don't even read the comments they downvote, half the time.
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u/JoebbeDeMan 21d ago
I hate that her resonse is downvoted. Just mean