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

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[–] [S] 2 points 9 months ago

I read it affects some comment/post sorting modes, so votes may be useful in some communities. I could see a support channel wanting correct answers at the top, for example

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