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Mass downvotes for non Americentric English posts (thelemmy.club)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/fediverse@quokk.au
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I’ve been seeing this trend in multilingual communities getting mass downvoted for posting content not in American English, and it's affecting how people interact with respective communities that post non ACE posts.

One huge e.g. was Sword of Legends 4 coverage. The raw sources were massdownvoted. Meanwhile an ACE corporation got inversely upvoted for secondary sourcing information.

Is threadiverse really this xenophobic?
Or is there something we can do about this?

Stop✋ xenophobia protest
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[–] 2 points 2 months ago*

I wonder if people thought it was just a bot/spam since they couldn't read it (presumably). (Edit for clarity: rather than being some intentional attack on non-US varieties of English (though the server is Canadian not US)).

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