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    https://www.wbez.org/government-politics/dnc-2024/2024/08/20/chicago-top-cop-police-ready-next-round-protests-israeli-consulate
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    • Carrolade@lemmy.world
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      It’s truly fascinating to watch how the downvote tallies for the bot correlate to article subject.

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        Got any data on that correlation? I’m seeing it at negative points in every thread I see it in. Anecdotal against anecdotal doesn’t really solve anything. Looking through the post history of the bot it looks to be mostly at negative score as far as upvotes. I’ve only looked at the first few pages though.

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          Yes, the bots history page would be an excellent example of this data. If you’re asking if I’ve done anything with it like compile it into a convenient graph or something, no I have not. That would not be difficult to do if someone wanted though.

          Also, I was not commenting on it having positive or negative scores, I would expect it to be regularly negative to keep it at the bottom of the comments section. That where I personally like it, at least. Instead, I was referring to the quantity of downvotes. So, 5 downvotes, or 10 downvotes or 50 downvotes would all be different values. We would then look at those quantities in relation to article subject.

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            Would quantity of negative votes not just be a function of user engagement for a set period of time?

            I’m assuming here, but, the bot likely will not travel down the comments at the same rate everywhere. My thinking is that would be due to different instances having different polling rates to report votes from all the other instances that picked up the post. I hope that makes sense.

            I think the behavior you’re referring to might be posts with few comments but a lot of engagement where the bot is still one of few posts so it stays within the height of the initial scroll?

            My hypothesis is that it’s generally downvoted at the rate of initial engagement; not as a function of which community it’s in.

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        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.

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          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.