I saw this post the other day:
What is the exact meaning of a misogynist person?
I watched it get posted and then a flurry of downvotes immediately followed.
I think people saw the word “misogynist” and didn’t bother to interpret what the OP was asking and then just downvoted the post.
The community name does include the word “stupid” in its name so even if you think OP’s question was ignorant there’s still no need to downvote it because it was posted in the right place. In addition, reading what OP wrote in the header shows that he or she was generally posting for edification reasons and not as a troll.
So, my conclusion is that:
Everyone online is suffering from a case of:
TLDR + trigger word = I know what angle to take in this debate.
What are some other trigger words used in post titles that causes a scenario like this to happen?
Serial downvoters maybe. But more powerful votes is just asking for account farming.
Which already happens, but in any case, that’s easily solvable too. Accounts that never engage with anything = low power, accounts that engage a lot and then vote wisely = high power.
Cue tons of bot statements.