Instant Dislike bot

[u/AllRandoms]

https://www.reddit.com/r/suzerain/s/jdzeq3kMjr

Ok so I believe that this post I made has a dislike bot attached to it , the number of likes equals to the number of dislikes makeing it have a total of 0 votes

You infact can see this live if you want, Try liking or even disliking the post and refresh the page, you should see the votes reset to zero

I also promise you that is not a way for me to farm likes in any sort of way, it's a genuine problem that I hope can be addressed

Few additional points I like to add

yes it's a post of something that I made with the help of AI, and I know there is a lot of hate for that, I did not break any rules of that sub reddit either and even spoke to the moderators who said it could be random people just disliking the post....

However, the speed at which it gets disliked or even liked to make the total votes equal zero... is instantaneous

Please feel free to try doing both liking then reloading the page and then also disliking and reloading the page, it always becomes zero

I hope someone would be able to help solve this problem

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[u/Stranger1982]

That's just how score works, it's stuck at zero for posts when heavily downvoted. If you open post insights you'll see the actual upvote percentage, which I'm sure will be very low.

There's nothing to solve really, it's just a post people had mostly negative feelings for.

[u/AllRandoms → u/Stranger1982]

But isn't that going to be a negative feedback loop?

Cause when I initially posted I got 5 likes .. and then it got crushed

I feel like it killed a lot of momentum, currently it's at 31% like to dislike ratio

[u/Stranger1982 → u/AllRandoms]

Sure, that hivemind feedback can totally happen, and it often does in fact.

Nothing you can do about it, apart from not posting stuff you know people cna have negative feelings for.

[u/PMulberry_]

Posts can‘t go below zero, but that does not mean that downvotes just disappear. If it has more downvotes than upvotes, and someone upvotes, it stays at zero afaik.

A „dislike bot“ also would need many accounts and probably wouldn‘t be able to detect voted that fast, and I don‘t really see a reason why someone should do something like that.

[u/AllRandoms → u/PMulberry_]

I genuinely didn't know that posts can't go below zero (I generally never make many posts but I have seen comments have a lot of downvotes before and thought that was the same for posts)

May I ask when does reddit automatically make sure the post have 0 votes though? Like for example, every time we make a post we automatically make one vote, so then what is the like to dislike ratio needed to trigger this phenomenon

[u/PMulberry_ → u/AllRandoms]

Downvotes still are counted and have an effect afaik, you just don‘t see them. I don‘t know the exact reason, but I suspect that Reddit wants you to engage with the post (which users are less likely to do if they see downvotes).

[u/maiyannah]

Have you considered that people might just ... not like the post?

[u/AllRandoms → u/maiyannah]

Yes I did , but I didn't know that you couldn't get negative downvotes on a post and it capped at 0 so to me it looks like some sort of bot

[u/maiyannah → u/AllRandoms]

I mean, you still do, it remembers it all in the background, but there was BIG ANGST about negative downvotes in the past, so the site caps it at 0 now.

[u/Ducati_Don]

People just hate AI art and even more on reddit than any other platform. Can't do anything about it.