Original poster of the thread here.

Doesn't appear to be negative anymore, but here is what it looked like: https://vale.rocks/micros/20260512-0652

Screenshot was taken at 06:50 UTC.

throwanem 26 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Not at all related, but I love your work! Your photographs betray a subtle, curious, particular, and respectful eye. Keep shooting!

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Imustaskforhelp 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Do you have any idea on what caused it?

https://news.social-protocols.org/stats?id=48104663

This seems to have gone to -10 and then went up according to this, which matches what your comment had said that you were seeing -10 on your android.

Edit: (actually it had gone all the way to -15) and seems that this website has been still stuck at -8 upvotes at the moment of this comment and this link has also been the proof for me to finally see/confirm this as the submission now has positive upvotes.

	▲	OuterVale 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It is hardly a satisfying answer, but I haven't the foggiest what caused it. I submitted it the same as I've submitted many other submissions in the past.

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hans-l 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Maybe there is an API to downvote posts and some bots found it?

Edit: Actually I would wager that it’s some kind of automatic downvoting when the system detects bad votes or comments. Something like “friends shouldn’t vote”. Since we see voting on posts and not comments we could see it go negative.

	▲	bombcar 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I suspect there’s downweights the system can apply - and if five people voted it up, the -5 downweight was applied, and then four of the upvotes were removed, you’d end up at -4.

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aaron695 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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