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My experience is that, in a sense, it was actually extremely consistent. People see a comment with a score of 0 or -1 (or lower) and they downvote it. It's a direct signal from the eyes to the the hands; the brain doesn't process it. They see a top comment and they upvote it, without checking the comment for correctness.
I admit I never checked a comment for correctness and upvoted because it looked right, but I also never ever downvoted because I saw a low score and can’t actually imagine real people did that. They were already folded down if they were like -24, and I usually upvoted reasonable but unpopular stuff (common source of a 0 or -1). Downvote trains are for people saying slurs and spammers.