It might be nice if lemmy clients (voyager, default client, etc) would make a suggestive pop-up:
Would you like to block this community? Your downvote ratio is 100% over the last X days/Y posts.
This is good for lemmy because it will let users have a more positive experience, its helping guide people to get better use of the user interface.
Seems odd to me, but then I rarely downvote anything.
Being able to block German and French instances easily might be helpful though. I can’t read them.
Lemmy already has a feature where you can define the language of a post and potentially filter by that property, but it’s pretty much useless because most just leave it on “Undetermined”. I believe clients should make a best effort guess about the language (maybe based on a dictionary analysis of the text body or WHOIS of a linked website) and offer it as the default choice instead.
Can’t mods remove “undetermined” from the list of options for a community, forcing posters to set the language when they post?
Same, I either upvote, ignore or block.
I only downvote things if I think they are bad for the platform, not just because it’s something I personally disagree with.
However, that isn’t how many people use voting.
Everyone should be setting their posting language right? Or does language filter just not work at all?
I’ve had no problems with it
IMO, it’s a mistake to be shutting out other cultures because of these easily-fixed technical issues.
Personally, I’d rather a translation option was added like they have on Mastodon. I’d miss out on some smart people if I blocked all German and French posts from my feed. Those just happen to be the best languages for high assurance engineering talk (which is basically all I care about).
That’s fair and I’ve suggested the same before as well.