Alright, hot take: This isn't the case, especially on Lemmy/kbin. Since upvotes/downvotes don't influence sorting, and scores aren't totaled into a single number, there's not really any downside to downvoting someone for just being a shitty opinion or something. If anything, it's actively informative that this-many-people thought this guy was dumb, but _this* many people thought it was good.

[–] roon@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, so it's not supposed to be totalled?

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some clients show a total next to the amount of up and downvotes.

[–] roon@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I use Voyager that shows the total