• aodhsishaj@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    Would quantity of negative votes not just be a function of user engagement for a set period of time?

    I’m assuming here, but, the bot likely will not travel down the comments at the same rate everywhere. My thinking is that would be due to different instances having different polling rates to report votes from all the other instances that picked up the post. I hope that makes sense.

    I think the behavior you’re referring to might be posts with few comments but a lot of engagement where the bot is still one of few posts so it stays within the height of the initial scroll?

    My hypothesis is that it’s generally downvoted at the rate of initial engagement; not as a function of which community it’s in.