Sorry if it’s a dumb question. I’m not even knocking or shaming, I just think they’re really funny and want to see more if you know of them. Not accounts that downvote, accounts that ONLY downvote. Rare ones. Like weapons-grade haters.
I’d collect them in my user tags. And like, just observe what they respond to.
Some instances have this baked in as a way to anonymize downvotes, these accounts are not real accounts but are just federated to other instances so they can’t see what actual account the downvote came from. I believe this is now a standard PieFed feature.
IMO, making downvotes public was kind of a mistake of the protocol. There’s a reason why most software stopped showing them publicly, but the fact that they’re there on the backend means a determined user can peek to find out who to get mad at, and I think that’s a problem.
THAT’S interesting. I had no idea there’d be something like this going on under the fediverse’s hood.
One I saw had a few upvotes and was an active commenter so I assume that was their real account.
Also you’re the first person I’ve met against public votes. I was too but then I just got curious and then I got morbidly curious when I found certain accounts. This probably isn’t a healthy curiosity but it looked so funny to see somebody just downvote EVERYTHING thousands of times. Like they woke up and chose anger.