Wait, so you can downvote yourself?

Raptamei·Oct 7, 2014·8 votes·479 views

Is this supposed to happen?

6 Comments

DaenOct 7, 20146 votes

For some reason, yes. Apparently the logic is that since you are a member of the community you can vote on yourself just like any other post.

My personal opinion is that we really shouldn't be able to touch our own posts, they should just default at zero. There is no possible situation where someone would downvote him or her self in a legitimate and useful way, especially since we can downvote ourselves twice (+1 to 0, 0 to -1).

An automatic upvote is unnecessary, we wouldn't be posting things if we didn't agree with our own opinion.

Hyrum GraffOct 8, 20142 votes

An automatic upvote is unnecessary, we wouldn't be posting things if we didn't agree with our own opinion.

I agree that this is silly. However, I do like the automatic +1.

If a post has 0 votes, I'd expect that means that an equal number of people like it and don't like it. On GD, it meant that one more person liked it than not (counting OP). Here, the count is accurate.

Nucleophilic atkOct 8, 20141 votes

If somebody said something that showed my opinion was clearly wrong, I would downvote myself :) Also, I like what the guy below me says about how it is an accurate vote because you are in favor of yourself, therefore it should not start with zero.

3ngin33rOct 7, 20143 votes

Yes you can power to people, i mean self empowerment or sick pleasure

Sir ArmaMalumOct 7, 20143 votes

Yeah, there's not really a point for it, but at the same time it's not really a problem so it hasn't really been touched. I assume it was done that way out of programming convenience but I cannot confirm.