Someone commented the other day that they thought their ex was following then and down voting every comment. I do sometimes see posts or comments with one downvote and wonder why.

Because it's so consistant. Exactly one downvote on most of my comments within minutes of it being posted. I could see if I were on someones bad side, and they did this for like a week........this has been since day 1 of me being here, and it's almost every comment.

The ONLY thing I could think of that would piss someone off to stalk a profile like that, is if someone who uses and loves linux is THAT upset that I don't understand linux. But the consistancy of it is just........I can't imagine this is human. It's just been going on for so long, on too many posts, and almost immediately after posting a comment. You'd think they'd give up if it were a human.

I'm not sure how you see the upvotes/downvotes, but on my UI I see in the upper right, the total calculated votes. But in the lower left I see Upvotes, and Downvotes individually. Plus when I post, my upvoting my own comment is automatic.

I think they're trying to be funny. I've also noticed a mild uptick in downvotes overall. Used to be 1 downvote per comment. Now it's like 2-3 per comment, but it's not consistant. So I'm thinking that'll die off when they get bored. It doesn't feel like automatic bot downvote style.

Have they lost their mind?

Here's a good example.

https://lemmy.world/comment/10869251

Posted on a post that was last commented on 26 days ago. I post that comment, and now within 2 minutes, downvote. Another different comment in the same topic, same thing, within 5 minutes.