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She's cool with it.
Lol I like how someone downvoted your reply for no reason
Sometimes I really wonder about the reasoning behind a downvote. Sucks that I'll never know.
Someone regularly goes through my post history and downvotes every comment. What does it accomplish? I have no idea.
Yeah the obvious "going down the list" downvotes are funny to me. Especially if the comment is less than a couple minutes old. Good times
I’m sure it’s the Anti Squid Society - flying squids are an abomination and that A.S.S. wants to squash them
I’m a rampant clicker/tapper and I bet I’ve unknowingly downvoted more than a few folks.
I don't know how you browse Lemmy, but on the default view in Firefox, downvotes are red and upvotes are blue, so it's hard to make that mistake.
I’m on a random app and while it’s obvious if I pay attention. I, occasionally, tap the down arrow by mistake while scrolling. Usually when I do this I notice it and undo it, but I imagine it’s happened a few times without me noticing.
Just saying it’s possible it’s some donkey like me that fat fingered a downvote.
Definitely a possibility.
Every once in a while I'll accidentally bump an upvote or downvote as I'm scrolling. I think I usually catch it but I'm assuming that I've left downvotes on plenty of entirely normal comments when I don'tcatch it. Whenever I get a random downvote I just assume it's from the same thing.
If you maintain an account on an instance that does not hide the identities behind votes, ~~like Kbin,~~ it's a simple thing to know. I don't usually look, but occasionally I'm curious.
EDITED TO ADD: I just looked at Kbin, they do not appear to be showing downvotes anymore (every post and comment on my page has a downvote total of zero) so scratch that, lol
But even if I knew who did it, I wouldn't know why they did it, and it wouldn't be worth asking them.
I've never asked. It's happened twice to me on Lemmy: once it was readily apparent because they tangled with me and I guess I really pissed them off, and the other time it was someone I'd never openly interacted with at all. In neither instance was a question going to get more of an answer than I already had, IMO.