I’ve occasionally noticed ordinary comments with zero upvotes to them. Yet, our own comments are upvoted automatically whenever we make them. So for comments to have zero upvotes, either something I don’t know about is happening, or there are people who downvote their own contributions.
I can’t help but wonder, why? It seems like extra effort without a clear reason.
Some clients allow the self auto-upvote to be set to off. The whole voting paradigm is a game within a game like the betting in poker. It can become the reason to comment rather than subject dialogue with others and some choose to ignore it. Inhuman in their mighty ability to rise above the filthy habit.