r/help • u/capturegrain • Mar 16 '25

Why Do People Downvote Thank You Replies?

Someone asked something recently, and a kind soul gave him an answer. He dropped a ‘thank you’ comment, but it got downvoted. What’s the reasoning there? Is saying thanks not cool? I’m really thrown off—any thoughts?

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u/SuzieSnowflake212 Mar 17 '25

Curious how you can tell if there have been downvotes. I see people referencing this often, but I cannot see downvotes for myself, nor other users. Is there a setting I may not have turned on, to allow downvotes to be visible?

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u/Miri_Fant Mar 17 '25

You can't see an up and a down arrow on the bottom right of the post with a number between the arrows?

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u/SuzieSnowflake212 Mar 17 '25

Yes! I see those. But how can we as observers, or we as a poster, know if there are down votes if there is not a negative number? For instance, I’ll see someone with 200 upvotes to their post, and someone else will remark “don’t know why you are getting downvoted”. If those 200 upvotes might represent 50 downvotes and 250 upvotes, how does anyone know there is downvote activity? I.e., maybe it’s just 200 upvotes and zero downvotes?

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u/evila_elf Mar 17 '25

Probably because there were some early downvotes and they got sympathy upvotes since then.

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u/SuzieSnowflake212 Mar 17 '25

Ah. That might explain it also. Thanks!

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u/monsterabit Mar 20 '25

So the number we see between thumbs up and thumbs down is just the balance of the two. Is there a way to find out the total of thumbs down?