Mods are aware of the Downvote issue, are doing nothing about it
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What a crazy coincidence that this issue just happened after Trump started a contentious war in the middle east on behalf of israel.
After the last 12 years I don't believe in coincidences.
Cohencidences, however...
Not necessarily nefarious though.
Back in the day votes would get queued up and it'd take minutes or hours for your vote to register on refreshed page so the system is probably a huge mess of jeetcode.
Could just be their downvote database filled up once there was an issue where half the users were mass downvoting the other half, and they don't know how to fix it.
That might explain why new downvotes aren't showing, but not why all downvotes have disappeared, for comments that are years old.
To illustrate my point: https://communities.win/u/DomitiusOfMassilia?type=comment&sort=controversial
Those comments should all negative scores, yet now they all have a score of 1.
Actually it completely explains why all the downvotes disappeared.
Database is corrupted or otherwise won't open, system can't display any downvotes on any comment.
Neatly explains everything even the lack of communication; like they're going to come out and say "uh thing broken we tarded".
But why only the downvotes? It's possible but it seems like a huge coincidence that upvotes work while downvotes are broken considering they're almost certainly part of the same function amd tables.