Whenever I post or comment (collectively, “post”), it has my upvote automatically without me doing anything, so the post always starts at +1/-0.

Now I’ve seen fresh posts with +0/-0, so not even the user itself is upvoting.

I don’t really care that much about votes, but I’m curious. Is this the user removing their own upvote, a client feature, some server feature, or some other reason?

Thank you in advance.

Edit: typos

  • Pamasich@kbin.earth
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    5 hours ago

    Whenever I post or comment (collectively, “post”), it has my upvote automatically without me doing anything, so the post always starts at +1/-0.

    Lemmy is lying to you there, to trick you into not upvoting your own post. That upvote doesn’t exist, the page just pretends it does.

    Proof? Mbin displays who upvoted a post. Here’s the page for this post. Notice how you aren’t among the list.