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
It’s because native English speakers are seeing it in their All feed. If it’s appearing in the All feed and the user has their feed set to English language only, then the poster failed to set what language their post was in. So they are downvoting the post for not setting the language.
I personally don’t agree with this, I’m annoyed when I see a post in All in a language I don’t know, but I simply block the user and move on. But maybe the persistent downvotes would call attention to the issue and encourage the poster to use the language settings in the future. As is happening right here.
Yeah I just block communities in languages I don’t speak. But maybe that doesn’t occur to some users.
It’s a lot better now that I can block entire instances, but for a while half of my feed was stuff feddit.de and feddit.it no matter how many communities I blocked. I can understand how someone would just start mass downvoting posts that forget to set a language.
Did you try selecting only English and Undetermined in your account settings?
Yep, that was one of the first things I tried to do to fix the issue, as I was getting frustrated with posts I couldn’t understand and blocking multiple communities a session. At least now I can just block the whole instance and not worry about it, even if the process is cumbersome.
Sorry to hear. I might go to Feddit.it and ask them to configure their communities properly, you’re not the first one raising an issue on their side
I’d like the option to see news / posts from other regions that are made in English, because those do happen. But I too just block whole communities and instances out of convenience