If you don’t like it, block the bot?
I’m confused on why people would downvote threads that account for most of the content in this community
If you don’t like it, block the bot?
I’m confused on why people would downvote threads that account for most of the content in this community
Some people are misanthropes, some people misclick, some people just want to get a reaction
I feel like misclicks don’t get much consideration. I know I personally misclick on a little less than 1% of posts I look at, usually because I’m scrolling quickly or transferring my phone from one hand to the other or something, and end up fat-fingering the button. Sometimes I notice and fix it, but I know I don’t catch all of them. I do put a little bit of effort into being careful though, I know not everyone does.
For this reason, I always consider that maybe 1-5% of total votes might potentially be misclicks, or just people not paying much attention, and I don’t really consider them. I figure misclicks will be split 50/50 between up and downvotes, with the downvotes being much more noticeable in general, due to human biases towards negative reinforcement.
Interesting, thanks!
I’m the same with swipe gestures. I always disable force feedback so it’s really easy to accidentally swipe a comment too far and not realize.