In general, I think people run into confusing exactly what is and isn’t the kind of stupid that’s right for this place.

Questions can be perfectly valid, but not really something you couldn’t ask anyone, any time, and get a deciding decent answer, so those get down voted a good bit.

Then you run into posts that are really more shittyasklemmy territory. They’re essentially jokes that neither deserve nor can be answered in a useful way.

There’s also the ones that are word salad that get down voted because nobody knows what the fuck is being asked.

Your most recent one fell afoul of not really being a question as much as it was a rant in question form. Which never goes over well here (I always down vote those, personally). Still answered in that case, but it really wasn’t in the spirit of the C/, so I felt it worth the vote down.

You had previous questions that were great, btw. It was just that one that rang funky.

I can’t speak for everyone, obviously, but thats my take on the trends of heavily down voted posts.

The ones that are genuine questions that wouldn’t be easy to ask and get answered irl or in most online spaces, those are the ones that tend to get up votes and plenty of responses