People who post in other languages than English, do you also get mass downvotes ? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 8 months ago by Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Recently, on the francophone lemmy, there was some discussion on downvote, as some posts (on francophone instance, or francophone communities) gets a lot of downvote without a reason.

Yesterday, I had post going up to -5 before going back to 1. It was a belgian newspaper article about new IA regulation in Europe in the francophone news community of LW. I am glad that so many people are interested in European affair and want to votes. But considering that it's not the kind of topic leading the heated discussion I doubt these downvotes were even about the topic but either some "random downvotes" or "people who haven't set their language filter properly"

Just curious if some of you experienced similar issues when posting in German/Spanish/Korean/Russian/whatever

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[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago

I wish the language settings were used more

That's the issue

Lots of non-English communities leave default/English checked. Either accidentally, or to be inclusive because they won't delete posts in English

The result is English speakers browsing "all" get a bunch of non-english posts.

I just block all the foreign language subs like that, but I'm sure some people just downvote when they see them.

But the overall problem, is theyre not setting their language settings correctly

[-] Blaze@dormi.zone 8 points 8 months ago

But the overall problem, is theyre not setting their language settings correctly

Definitely. Both users and mods. If they would, there wouldn't be any issue.

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