Turn off Downvote. Lemmy have some quirky user where they will lurk all the time and downvote content that doesn't fit their own preference. Like, what are your purpose? If you don't like seeing that language why not turn it off? Why not scroll past the topic you don't like or don't matter to you? It chase away a lot of people because they feels unwelcome.
These quirks is also the reason it's hard to recommend lemmy to my acquaintance and friends.
Yeah, i would also like it to remain there, but i feels like from my experience, i've seen it used very arbitrary/maliciously on innocent post than on spam post. And people just can't refrain from downvoting language they don't understand.
True. But I'd also like to see a reduction of seemingly general purpose down voting. There seem to be users who do nothing but down vote everything in sight.
I'm an admin, i know there's this function, and my instance is super small. What i'm saying is it affect the user of big instance more when it's allowed and consequently Lemmy, since new user would likelier to sign up with these big instance than the smaller one(like mine).
Like for example, all post in !newcommunities@lemmy.world, a community that promote new community have downvote. Why? No one know. I remember the Bangladeshi's community post got negative vote count when it's posted, but only a bit later on the upvote start pouring in.