Maybe I’m oversensitive? We all know our votes here are public record, but to me it seems like weird, obsessive, and unhealthy behavior.
It definitely is a red flag for me to the point where I wonder if I shouldn’t just outright block people who go around making it known it’s something the participate in.
What? Ok?
This isn’t a comment on a sub thread of a sub thread of an otherwise long dead thread jumping from no downvotes to -3 in like a single day (between the time I made my comment and the time I’m responding to the reply). I’m not actively watching this stuff and I think you’ve misunderstood what I’m talking about.
Now if you’re going to check my profile page over the next few days to a week? Then I might notice the downvotes and look, but I honestly haven’t noticed anything like that or checked votes against my comments since the event I mentioned in my last comment with that powermod, which was sometime last year.
Downvotes on a comment like mine, offering a semi-reasonable explanation for disliked behavior, are entirely expected. Hell, downvotes an any comment expressing an opinion.