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Stop downvoting foreign languages posts. Just use the language filter. (forum.ayom.media)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Constantly users from lemmy.world and lemm.ee are downvoting posts in languages other than english.

If you do not understand and don't wanna see it just use the filters.

Go to settings and select the languages you know, plus "undetermined". That's it.

people who are seeing this, plese let your instances admins know of this problem and comunicate the instance users.

Thanks

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I doubt they're downvoting it because its not English. That would be ridiculous

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

I have seem it happening. always the same users.

Probably the are navegatin in new and as soon as they see non-english they downvote. These people doesn't even have a single post in other than english,

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

You vastly underestimate the idiocy and childishness of Americans. I've seen people comment things like "use English, this is a US website", "go to another site for your own country if you want to use anything other than English", etc. even though the posts were in communities/subs specific for the language the post was in.
This has always been a thing online.
Many Americans are so dumb they think they are the vast majority on any website, and everything should be via their rules and ways. And there are several other things that seemingly only Americans are dumb enough to do and/or to not understand, things like timezones (even though they have several within their country), that the vast majority of the world uses Metric, that not every country has the same products or services, that their subjective experience of anything is in fact subjective, etc. I could go on for several more paragraphs with things like this.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Yep, yanks tend to think they can just police everyone into doing it their way.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Fact: the US uses the metric system for decades (maybe closer to a century?). All federal contracts in the US must be in metric. Its not the same at the State level, and its not mandated for private businesses--unless they're working for the federal government.

Also every US American is taught metric in schools.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

I think you mean US Americans. Most Americans speak Spanish.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Admins can see votes (now in the Lemmy UI, too!) and this definitely happens.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Admins can read minds?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

they can infer, you know? Using something called logical reasoning.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

People can infer anything. That doesn't mean they are right.