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

  • @Blaze
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    13 months ago

    Did you try selecting only English and Undetermined in your account settings?

    • @Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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      43 months ago

      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.

      • @Blaze
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        33 months ago

        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