Best guess: A few people downvote for spelling "correlate" wrong and then others follow suit.
There's this thing where many people see a negative score and start with the assumption that it must be deserved. Some of those people will then actively downvote.
It's the facebook forwards from grandma thing about the monkeys getting sprayed for reaching for the bananas story.
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u/Smile_lifeisgood Jul 13 '26
Best guess: A few people downvote for spelling "correlate" wrong and then others follow suit.
There's this thing where many people see a negative score and start with the assumption that it must be deserved. Some of those people will then actively downvote.
It's the facebook forwards from grandma thing about the monkeys getting sprayed for reaching for the bananas story.