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The other day, it was at 96%. This morning, it was at 88%. Now, a few hours later, it's at 80%. What's going on?

I've started a few communities and like it here. I try to be nice and upbeat. My posts have been received well, not seeing downvotes...

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Edit: I'm marking this solved. I understand it now. Thank you all for being so helpful!

Edit Edit: After days of upvoting, I'm back at 96%. I juked the stats!

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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

To add a bit to the good answers here... 100% is not "the best" score. We do want people to downvote bad stuff, whatever that is. Low quality, misinformation... I think downvoting that goes without question and these downvotes contribute something to the network. So you'll end up with a score in-between. Other than that, most people here use downvotes sparingly. They reserve downvotes to carry some weight, for content they want to discourage. Some minority of people hand out downvotes more generously. And from the maths perspective, I think that's not "wrong" either. In the end those scores of posts and comments get used for ranking and we want interesting stuff to float to the top and other stuff towards the bottom. So I (personally) roughly go with the masses, I don't downvote on opinion or disagreement, I more or less downvote something if it's clearly bad behaviour or wrong. Other than that I leave it as is. And I'm generous with the upvotes at least in the comments, because they feel nice to everyone. I'm a bit more reserved with posts. But that's just what I do. Ultimately you're fine. You should start to re-think what you're doing once you end up with a low ratio or in the negative numbers. Because that means you might be at the wrong place and your subscriptions and feeds show you lots of stuff you don't like and maybe you should subscribe to stuff you do like to read. 80% is clearly fine. And my single-user instance reports 90% for you. But as I said, we're not aiming for 100%. And people are different and while we have some prevailing opinion on how votes should be used, it's a bit down to the individual user to decide.