Why can we upvote/downvote our own posts?

3 years ago by HourglassHayden to c/meta

I know this isn't about lemm.ee specifically but I figured this was a good place to ask.

I always found it weird - even on reddit - that users could upvote and downvote themselves. Why not just have posts start at 0 votes?

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bro 5 points 3 years ago

There've been a few occasions where I disagreed with my own post. I couldn't just let myself get away with bs comments, so I had to downvote to teach myself a lesson.

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