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
Did you correctly set the language of the post in the first place?
weirdly I can’t set the correct language for a comment if that’s not English. for example if i add a comment in another language, even after setting the main language to that language I can’t change it in the comments setting. it kinda reverts to unidentified. hate this bug.
The languages you can use are limited by the community configuration
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.
You don’t follow it, you see it from All
If it’s in a language-specific community or instance then it makes no sense to downvote imo. I personally do downvote unlabeled posts in communities that aren’t language specific though, because they clutter my experience.
A lot of us just browse all, given how little content there is overall