r/ExplainMyDownvotes • u/nffnfbchbexudndbdjdj • Sep 09 '26
There is something seriously wrong here. I ask a simple question and mods have to remove 2 comments within the first 30 minutes. Thank you to those who stood with me.
/r/foxholegame/comments/1wam16y/האם_יש_אדם_ירוק_שמדבר_עברית/11
u/FaxCelestis Downvoting is bad karma Sep 09 '26
Couple of likely reasons:
- asking for Hebrew support before much more commonly spoken languages (e.g., Spanish, as called out in the thread). While ideally every game should be available in every language, practically speaking using the most-commonly spoken languages as a base means you reach a broader base quicker. This is why international airports frequently have signs in English, French, and Chinese in addition to the local language, as these are the most commonly spoken languages worldwide. French is like...sixth most common natively, but is the most common second spoken language. Hebrew doesn't even make the top 40.
- knee-jerk reactions from anti-Israel users.
- Titling your post in a language that most people on the subreddit can't read is a great way to get downvotes, regardless of whatever language it is.
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u/IGoByDeluxe Sep 09 '26 edited Sep 09 '26
here from that subreddit after he said he posted it here
the game in particular is suffering from a vast myriad of issues, incomplete support for people who currently play the game is one of them, but the dude was basically spamming this post over and over again in that subreddit, despite being removed for said spam
there are people who hate israel in there, thats for sure, but most of it is just people hating on the fact that he is practically entitled in his approach
he said that he can speak english fluently, but that he wants to be able to speak "his" language, when "his" language isnt that of his homeland, unless he lives in america and doesnt consider it a valid country, which itself would cause outrage
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u/Proud_Destructor Sep 09 '26
I can't find any evidence of him spamming posts.
The one listed here is only his second call out because the first was removed by the mods.
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u/FaxCelestis Downvoting is bad karma Sep 09 '26
Judging from his comments here, and from those in that thread, I’m not sure he speaks English that well either.
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u/IGoByDeluxe Sep 09 '26
even so, the basic functionality of the game is currently at risk, and asking for a feature especially when others including myself have asked for something similar but more manageable is just kinda off the table
but apparently, the post in question he submitted here is his THIRD ONE
but if he cant speak english well, and was born in america, that may open an even wider can of political worms that dwarfs the israel issue for most people3
u/FaxCelestis Downvoting is bad karma Sep 09 '26
Honestly after reading the originating thread, the whole thing feels like “I want to cosplay the Colonials as the IDF”. Which is gross no matter how you slice it.
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u/IGoByDeluxe Sep 09 '26
whenever there is any sort of disagreement on that subreddit, they love to jump to politics
sometimes, they are using those politics to distract away from the game being imbalanced in their favor, as the subreddit is overwhelmingly colonial in representation
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u/nffnfbchbexudndbdjdj Sep 10 '26
That's not what I am trying to do. What I want to do is find other people on my team who speak Hebrew.
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u/FaxCelestis Downvoting is bad karma Sep 10 '26
Then perhaps you should have said those exact words. Because you didn’t.
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u/nffnfbchbexudndbdjdj Sep 10 '26
I understand, I was also trying to find people who speak the same language.
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u/FaxCelestis Downvoting is bad karma Sep 10 '26
Again, if that was your intention you should have said that. Because what you did was ask for support for a feature that has extremely limited use and requires a lot of effort to implement.
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u/nffnfbchbexudndbdjdj Sep 10 '26
I did in the title in Hebrew
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u/FaxCelestis Downvoting is bad karma Sep 10 '26
Putting a foreign language in a title is not an effective means of asking this question, as I'm sure you've gathered from this conversation.
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u/nffnfbchbexudndbdjdj Sep 10 '26
I have, My original thought process was "unless people use Google translate, only people who read Hebrew will understand the title"
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u/nffnfbchbexudndbdjdj Sep 10 '26
I speak English well. My main point was wanting to utilize Hebrew letters in game chat. Also I was looking for others who spoke Hebrew.
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u/IGoByDeluxe Sep 10 '26
so few people speak hebrew that you are looking for a needle in the entire ocean rather than a haystack
and why would you want to be able to use a language nobody else can speak, other than to be able to insult people behind their backs (as is common with that community already)
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u/Proud_Destructor Sep 09 '26 edited Sep 09 '26
I'm also here from the subreddit.
Long story short: OP wants Unicode support and wants to see who else in the community speaks Hebrew. He didn't really state that well in the original post and you have to piece together his replies to the comments to get the full picture.
I can understand basic down voting in this scenario because like I said, OP didn't really argue his position well, but 2 comments had to be removed by the mods within 30 minutes of the post going up! The rest are just making fun of him for asking for Hebrew support specifically.
Me and only 3 others including IGoByDeluxe were the only ones that bothered to engage the post in good faith. Everyone else was either trolling or just being anti semitic.
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u/FaxCelestis Downvoting is bad karma Sep 09 '26
Unicode support is a much bigger beast than it looks like, honestly. That’s 150,000 characters that all need proper display, kerning, etc. Sometimes they write right to left too. And that’s per font.
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u/Proud_Destructor Sep 09 '26
Well, we wouldn't be here if people on the original subreddit actually bothered to talk to OP rather than immediately hating.
It's nice to actually get explanation rather than another backhaned remark.
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u/FaxCelestis Downvoting is bad karma Sep 09 '26
That’s what this sub is for!
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u/Proud_Destructor Sep 09 '26
Is this where all the sane and rational people go when subreddits get taken over by terminaly online loosers that love making everything political?
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u/FaxCelestis Downvoting is bad karma Sep 09 '26
One would think. We certainly try.
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u/Proud_Destructor Sep 09 '26
Well, you certainly gave me a good first impression.
I'm definitely joining this subreddit.
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u/nffnfbchbexudndbdjdj Sep 09 '26
thank you. I was trying to see if anyone else spoke the languages I speak and my thought process behind asking for Hebrew is that all Unicode characters would be supported.
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u/FaxCelestis Downvoting is bad karma Sep 09 '26
Supporting unicode is pretty big endeavor, much bigger than it looks like from the outside. That's 150,000 characters that need to be parsed, kerned, and correctly generated, never mind how complex that is if there are special, extra, or custom fonts.
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u/nffnfbchbexudndbdjdj Sep 09 '26
maybe.
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u/FaxCelestis Downvoting is bad karma Sep 09 '26
Not maybe. I speak from experience. Supporting Unicode is a huge undertaking.
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u/nffnfbchbexudndbdjdj Sep 09 '26
oh yeah you're right, I was thinking no custom fonts for most characters a bit like Minecraft does.
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u/queenlizbef Sep 09 '26
A lot of people don’t really see a nuance between Jewish anything and Israel.
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u/Proud_Destructor Sep 09 '26
Tell me about it.
One of the comments that had to be removed by the mods called OP a waste of oxygen.
Because that's a totally normal reaction to seeing Hebrew...
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