I've done that. I've made such boneheaded comments that I've left them up and downvoted myself out of not just shame, but a sense of duty.
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Sometimes you leme when you should not. We've all been there. The bravery to leave up your idiocies is appreciated
“I’m such a dumbass. I can’t believe I posted that shit. I totally deserve a downvote.”
Imagine having a default vote on your posts.
This comment was brought to you by the mbin gang.
Imagine bragging about lacking a feature.
It's not exactly an important or useful feature.
1-3 scale of self destructive narcissism
What's more narcissistic than declaring your past self inferior
Declaring your future self inferior?
I will be so bad at this I'm not going to have seen it coming...
Does alternating between upvoting and downvoting one’s own post cause it to artificially rise in either Hot or Active?
Probably not as the action was performed by the same actor.
Hopefully not
You could try downvoting it, waiting for some pity upvotes and then upvoting it again to give it a head start
Yep say something controversial but broadly acceptable, downvote yourself to look attacked, then come back in a few minutes and upvote your command and you're now the top child comment under a post. Stealthy but effective.
Maybe in "Controversial"
One thing I liked about Kbin was that I didn’t upvote my own post. All my votes were earned.
I'll do you one better: lottery. You set it up where it's random whether it's upvoted, downvoted, or neither. You don't know till you post.
Based.
Ik for a bit on reddit it was promoting controversial posts more and u could game the algorithm by doing this.