I have an authority problem with my smartphone. It has this thing about downvoting users without asking for my opinion. So I have to check my downvotes. But there is a discrepancy on my activity page. It says that I have n downvotes, but when I ask for the actual downvotes, to see what was downvoted, and possibly undo my smartphone initiatives, I find out that there are only m actual downvotes where m < n.
So, where have all the n-m downvotes gone. Is it downvotes of questions that were deleted, and thus disappeared, while remaining on my total count? The fact is that the same is true for upvotes.
n
includes down-votes on posts that have subsequently been deleted, where asm
is just undeleted posts?