Whenever I post or comment (collectively, “post”), it has my upvote automatically without me doing anything, so the post always starts at +1/-0.
Now I’ve seen fresh posts with +0/-0, so not even the user itself is upvoting.
I don’t really care that much about votes, but I’m curious. Is this the user removing their own upvote, a client feature, some server feature, or some other reason?
Thank you in advance.
Edit: typos
In my opinion I shouldn’t even have the ability to upvote my own comments. I don’t really see the point behind doing so.
You don’t like what you post? Then why did you post it? The auto upvote for yourself is because it is assumed you like what you post. That right there should tell everyone that they are not intended to be more complicated than “like” or “dislike.”
Might have to clarify that my instance (or rather Mbin in general) doesn’t do auto upvotes.
Though it doesn’t really change my stance. You can swap it around to removing the auto upvote, I don’t really see the point behind that being possible either.
If you like your content, keep it up. If you don’t like it, either edit it until you do or delete it. Upvotes and downvotes are for judging the content of others, not your own. So be it adding one when there’s zero, or removing the upvote automatically added by your instance, I don’t see the point in either being possible.
I mean, you thought it was a good comment to post. You’re a user on the fediverse, therefore you deserve 1 updoot.
But there’s zero information gained from a self upvote. If I didn’t like my comment, I’d either delete it or edit it until I do.
Of course I like my comment if I keep it up, so a self upvote adds nothing. The only advantage I see is to make this place look more like Reddit, which isn’t really something I care about.