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The US having child marriage is one of the many shitty things about this country. We must change this urgently. It's fucking shitty and serves no greater purpose.
I really have to wonder who is down voting this comment.
Sometimes I upvote/downvote posts and comments on accident while scrolling... I might be giving people too much credit though.
Happens to me too. When I notice, I'm mortified.
Same for me! The majority of the times I've noticed it is when I happen to scroll past the same post/comment a second time, so I wonder how many I haven't "corrected it"?
There is some very pathetic person who goes through my post history and just downvotes every comment regardless of what is said, meaning they have downvoted me doing things like telling someone I sympathize with them or even just me thanking someone. It's bizarre. People think internet points matter on Lemmy when they didn't even matter on Reddit where a tally was being kept.
Did a quick run through of your last two days and it’s all different people.
Or is it different troll accounts that keep getting banned?
Could be that too lol.