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.
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
It’s not just you, I get downvoted even in English.
I see unreasonable downvotes on posts everywhere on lemmy.
I suspect that either there are sociopaths who dislike everything, or there are bots being used to influence visibility of posts.
I’ve been working on something that can be used to manually identity mass downvoters and downvotees. It doesn’t happen as much as I’d expected, but there are some humorous exceptions I’ve been able to pull with my limited research.
JLDC(@)lemmy(.)byrdcrouse(.)com, for example, has downvoted someone else at least 15,000 times.
One of their favorite targets is Viking_Hippie(@)lemmy(.)world, who had accrued over 1,000 downvotes from them alone.
Linkerbaan(@)lemmy(.)world has received over 10,000 downvotes, including over 1,000 from AlmightySnoo(@)lemmy(.)world.
BTW, I checked both you and OP out. No mass downvotes that I could see, although my data set is incomplete.
would you share this tool
For now, I’ll take requests… But the tool is running on a potato.
i literally have a list, but some of them are my alts. i feel like you’ve given enough hints that i could probably duplicate your work, though.
People haven’t set the language filter properly
Did you correctly set the language of the post in the first place?
In general I try to so. that said even if I fail to do so, why would you follow a community in a language you don’t know.
I feel like Lemmy’s interfaces should be doing a better job at this. As in: we [users in general] almost never tag the content of our messages by language; and this should be addressed.
That’s likely what’s causing those downvotes - some people see content in a language that they don’t speak, and downvote it.
As in: we [users in general] almost never tag the content of our messages by language
May I ask how one would go about doing that? I know it’s a feature of the protocol, but it seems to be inaccessible to me on my client of choice (Jerboa). The vanilla web UI seems to have even less feature accessibility
But why would people downvote content in other languages?
I don’t know. But if I had to guess it:
Some downvote anything that they get no value from. Some see Lemmy as some sort of Anglo e-Lebensraum, and get pissed that people “dare” to use other languages here. And some are a middle ground, like “I feel entitled to be able to read everything posted here, but I’m a monolingual, so you need to post in English for MY sake! Reeeeee!” style.
Just… again, I’m guessing it. I might be wrong.
Because a lot of people are British and American
여기 한쿡 사람이 없는데요
한쿡?
要試試看嗎？
Yesterday, I had post going up to -5
5 is a non-issue. Just a little noise. When you get 500, then we can talk.
-5 on a 400 subscribed community where it’s rare to see posts above +5 is significant, the francophone lemmy is still quite small. Not clear whether it’s why the downvotes are visible compared to bigger language, or whether there is people downvoting stuff on all which aren’t in english
If anyone from feddit.it sees this, please set your language defaults to (presumably) Italian!
I just put them in my block list but I’d rather that be for much more extreme problems.
And to OP it’s most likely because of this issue. Blocking isn’t the right solution. Downvoting at least conveys that SOMETHING is wrong on their end. So people probably use it as such.
Note that, with some other french speaker we’ve done a couple of experiences with language tags. Some instances ignore the c/ default language https://sh.itjust.works/post/16306134 so even if the community is properly set some languages aren’t set automatically.
Moreover some /c/ may want to be multi-lingual and then users need to set language by hand no matter what
It feels like an issue that should be solved with additional features. Understandably it’s a low priority issue, but the current setup is going to produce this type of issue, and it’s not really something that we can blame on anyone.
The trick is that the fedi, has already better tools than reddit/Xitter. We can already flag the language and filter by language, which is feature reddit still doesn’t have. So it’s also about people using it rather than blocking/downvoting
I didn’t really encounter something like that. Sometimes I comment a one liner in German and they all get upvotes. (I wonder how many people in the Fediverse are German)
Guess: When it comes to full posts, I think it is kinda expected to put a translation into it. I can see people getting unreasonably annoyed by the fact that they don’t have an information instantly available to them. So they might just downvote out of frustration? Which is kinda dumb, but the train of thought makes sense.
I posted a cover of a classic Korean rock song to c/Coververse and got down voted for that. Songs I’d posted in English didn’t get that response. Idk if it was due to the fact the song was in Korean, or due to voters not recognizing the original.
