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Is it rude to interrogate downvoters? (piefed.blahaj.zone)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/casualconversation@piefed.social
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I'm very curious about the reasoning different people use when deciding to downvote a post or comment. Often, when something gets "heavily" downvoted, the OP will ask some variation of "why the downvotes?". This is sometimes answered with sincere criticism, but sometimes is received even more poorly than the original offending post.

Do you downvote people who ask "why the downvotes?"? What informs the decision?

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[–] 3 points 7 months ago

I'll try to lecture people. I think it's moronic to just down-vote them again. I mean they're obviously not getting it. So another down-vote makes the situation even worse. And they're obviously, actively asking to learn something. So the correct approach is to tell them... There's one big exception: If they're baiting. But it's usually fairly easy to tell by their comment history.

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