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Should people be able to (down/)vote in communities they dont subscribe? (szmer.info)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by kolektyw_szmer@szmer.info to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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We had a random post in an anarchist community on our Polish speaking instance. Some 45 English speaking accounts came out of nowhere to downvote it, with a single one engaging in discussion. None of them were ever active on the instance, nor particularly in this community. Seems they just followed every crosspost.
Mods could not really do anything about it, so the accounts were banned from the entire instance by admins, as this was considered hostile behaviour against our community.
Which rises the question; should people be able to vote, end specially downvote, in communities they are not a part of? Maybe this could be at least a setting?

Another interesting concept that came from the discussion over that was "constructive downvote" - requirement of commenting why one downvotes a post.

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[–] zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I downvote non-English results I see on my All page as a punishment for not correctly setting the language on the post, which takes 1 second to do and would ensure it doesn't spam the feed for non-speakers. I can't imagine I'm alone - was the post in question not correctly tagged as Polish content, like your post is correctly tagged as English content?

If it was correctly tagged, then those downvotes were all from people who speak Polish.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz -3 points 10 months ago

Punish them good.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml -4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Anglocentric self-awarewolf detected.

[–] zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

This stance has nothing to do with anglocentrism and everything to do with making Lemmy usable. You set your languages in your profile so you'll only see posts and comments in those languages. No one likes seeing lots of posts in languages they don't understand, and that that only happens when people are too lazy to set the language indicator. I'd fully expect and encourage non-English speakers to downvote improperly tagged English posts in their feed as well.

[–] Jomn@jlai.lu 1 points 10 months ago

I'm not sure that all apps let users set the language of a post.