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Did anyone else here noticed?

No matter the subject or your opinion, there's always people down voting you.

I don't care about up/down votes but we can't deny that's a way to know the acceptance of your thoughts by the community.

I tried to make some posts absolute neutral, just asking simple things to see if people discuss and interact which each other and me, I just got down voted out of nowhere.

Right now I'm seeing the karma count fighting going up and down, some people just down vote out of nowhere without any possible logic explanation.

Did anyone figure out what's up with those people?

Discussing on Reddit feels like a fight to know who has the best opinion of all, you just aren't allowed to think different or they'll down vote you to hell.

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That's why I like Blahaj - no downvotes to silence dissent or minority voices.

It wasn't uncommon on Reddit for me to ask an entirely on-topic question that I could not find being asked before and to get downvoted to oblivion. I later found I could delete these and repost verbatim a few hours or even days later and they'd often receive a positive response. The single biggest predictor of whether or not a neutral comment was inexplicably dogpiled upon was the first two votes. If it dipped to -1, it was typically done for.