Preface: Love this instance, happy to be here and this isnt a complaint just an observation.
OK so I mod a few communities across several instances, big and small. 3 on this very instance, I have noticed a pattern that posts on this instance tend to get a consistent early downvote count.
This might be my bad observations or the type of posts I see so I’d love to hear if anyone else has noticed the same.
It seems to be more prevalent on lemmy - if the post or comment gets 3 or 4 downvotes before it even gains traction, then it’s dogpiled.
You can see it irl yourself. Post the same comment in a different thread (within the same post!), and watch the difference.
I’ve noticed this with the two largest Lemmy instances – .ml and .world.
I don’t mod any communities but I do put in the effort to curate my “All” feed and most of the users & communities I block come from those 2 instances. Toss hexbear on there and that’s almost 100%.
The .world is tricky bc it is such a large instance and that’s where many new lemmings land so it’s always going to be messy.
I still have my world account but never use it. I prefer being part of db0.
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I specifically avoid all three of them as well, along with Beehaw.
I normally use my .world login, and there are 2 instances specifically on my regular scroll (all, active) that are at 0 or less mere minutes in…
That’s weird. Someone else here in the comments section mentioned downvote bots, so it might be that (?)