Most of the time I don’t even check the replies let alone the votes. The last time I went looking through old comments for a gif I wanted, I caught sight of a perfectly split up-to-downvote ratio for asking a simple question that made a bunch of people go “And I took that personally”, as it split into two factions of users who were fighting either vehemently in support of my perceived opinion or vehemently against it.

I meant the question literally, not condescendingly, so I was completely uninvested in the response and it was kind of crazy to see how personally attacked others were willing to feel on the behalf of some random stranger lmfao

Plus you never know how many votes are from real humans expressing their own opinions.

True, who cares what a rando on net think about you. This is the first rule on being on net.

Then again, appearently the people who downvote are very sensitive to opinions they dont agree with.

Its a counter of how many people wants their own opinions only on the thread. So if you see it that way, its funny. :)