Sure. I’m not criticizing people downvoting the bot though, merely pointing out that if you observe for awhile, you’ll notice it sometimes picks up large numbers of downvotes and sometimes does not.
The number of votes it receives doesn’t appear to be correlated with how many people overall are participating in the thread, though, which is what one would expect. Instead it appears to relate most to what the article is about. This is interesting.
It’s a bot, his feelings aren’t hurt by imaginary internet points :)
There also isn’t like a critical mass of commenters on most topics, so down voting isn’t even suppressing points of view yet.
Sure. I’m not criticizing people downvoting the bot though, merely pointing out that if you observe for awhile, you’ll notice it sometimes picks up large numbers of downvotes and sometimes does not.
The number of votes it receives doesn’t appear to be correlated with how many people overall are participating in the thread, though, which is what one would expect. Instead it appears to relate most to what the article is about. This is interesting.