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?
You made a simplified Chinese language post to an English-speaking Canadian instance’s community. Rule 9 on their community specifically says you should use the original source UNLESS it is paywalled or not in English.
You can try and find an instance or community that is primarily Chinese or multilingual or make one yourself. I know hosting a whole instance isn’t for everyone though. Alternatively you could just use a platform without voting like mastodon or ice shrimp/miskey etc.
You’re aware that 1) Canadians have lots of Chinese readers, 2) those are original sources 3) I included the English steam link with it’s ACE localization?
Original source unless it is not in English, or post in English.
Is the Steam link not in English?
Which cannot be seen while scrolling, nor can you tell what the stream link is.
There are other options. You can use an instance that disables downvotes. PieFed even allows you to disable downvotes per community instead of per instance.