What I struggle a bit with is the consistent 2 downvotes and sometimes more on seemingly completely innocent posts? Because when a community is small this affects visibility in my understanding? The first votes are often the two downvotes.

I had a theory that some app "hides" posts on downvote and guessed that people are scrolling "all" and downvoting as they go through the posts.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

What I struggle a bit with is the consistent 2 downvotes and sometimes more on seemingly completely innocent posts? Because when a community is small this affects visibility in my understanding? The first votes are often the two downvotes.

You can use tesseract.dubvee.org/ to view downvotes. If someone downvotes all of your content without commenting, I would just ban them

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thanks Blaze, I remember that votes are not actually anonymous in threadiverse but was too lazy to figure out a way to check them. I'll check out tesseract and try to figure out whether these are random downvotes or is someone just being a dick.

I honestly don't care about downvotes but it does seem to affect visibility in some sorted feeds like "Hot" no?

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 months ago

It does, indeed. Not sure about the calculation, but it has an impact

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You can use tesseract.dubvee.org/ to view downvotes.

How does this work?! I tried it but didn't see names. Is this a mod only feature?

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If you look at a post of a community you mod, there's a small shield icon that allows you to see votes

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh boo, now I can't get vengeance. I got no mod powers.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh, I thought you had 😄

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Nah, I just want power with no responsibility.