Yes I’m looking at you.

When an artist posts a non-offensive artwork, or creates promotional posts, it’s not just me, I see it constantly that the vote sits at 0. All posts get an automatic +1 on posting by yourself, so someone, someone probably here, looks at a brand new post of an artist sharing their craft and downvotes.

Yes, karma doesn’t matter here, but it’s such a shitty thing to do, and if it’s one of you here on crystals.rest, you’re not welcome. I’m not saying you can’t downvote things ever, but automatically downvoting someone on a small instance when all they are doing is sharing something just makes people feel like shit.

I see that same thing when I’m on r/gamedevclassified. So now I automatically upvote ALL posts there because artists NEED VISIBILITY

    • Kotzwinkle@crystals.restEnglish
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      11 months ago

      XD

      Also, I was under the impression that upvotes and downvotes were public per this and that instance owners could disable down votes.

      • Nina@crystals.restOPMEnglish
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        11 months ago

        You can disable downvotes, but I think they’re important when like, having discussions. Not just as some kind of reflex to someone having fun. And I think I can technically figure out who downvotes, but I’m not going to do that.

        Also :> still positive in the end

        But yeah I predicted maliciousness, but really. I don’t get why people auto downvote things that have nothing to do with them.