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

  • Boinkage@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    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.

    • LesserAbe@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 months ago

      Yeah I just block communities in languages I don’t speak. But maybe that doesn’t occur to some users.

  • cloudless@lemmy.world
    1·
    6 months ago

    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.

    • LWD@lemm.ee
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      6 months ago

      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.

        • LWD@lemm.ee
          1·
          6 months ago

          For now, I’ll take requests… But the tool is running on a potato.

          • wakumul@lemm.ee
            01·
            6 months ago

            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.

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
    1·
    6 months ago

    I don’t see it in the German communities I’m in. Sometimes someone would ask for a translation of a meme or so, but that’s pretty rare.

    I wish the language settings were used more. My app of choice (Voyager) doesn’t even let me select the language when I post. I think if a community had a default language and that were automatically selected when posting and commenting that would be great.

  • RainfallSonata@lemmy.world
    01·
    6 months ago

    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.