My suspicions are that the post with no votes are not from other Lemmy instances, but rather from other federated platforms.
this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2025
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Mbin defaults to 0 by default, have to upvote manually.
Will test and edit. Ill leave my automatic upvote on, so first person to read this please downvote this comment
Edit: no no guys, stop upvoting 🤣
Edit 2: sorry OP, guess i cant test out my theory, which was that if you leave your upvote, but get downvoted once, it shows up as 0
As others have mentioned, mbin doesn't auto-upvote. I didn't even know that Lemmy does apparently. Seems like something that really ought to be standardized across platforms, because now it feels like mbin is at a 'disadvantage'.
IMO, ideally you just shouldn't be able to vote on your own posts/comments at all.
People on Mbin and Kbin do not automatically upvote their own posts. I would guess at least some of those posts were because of that.
Accidental? A wayward tap.
If one person down votes, will a comment not have zero points?
Some instances (kbin.earth in my case, which runs on mbin) show upvotes and downvotes separately. Your comment looks like this to me
I can't remember which ones exactly; but I know I've seen a few people mention apps that don't upvote by default.
I don't think it's a conscious effort to remove the automatic upvote.
Though I have on rare occasion realized I said something stupid and just downvoted my post/comment instead of outright deleting it. Maybe someone will learn something from my stupidity.
Accidentally or for some of them sweet, sweet sympathyUpvotes