Hi @acidyo you can ask anything you want :)
Olio di balena is a generalist community and in the community rules Italian language is highly valued (well acepted) but not a requirement to post in the community.
In case Italian users increase in the future there will be less support for those who do not write in Italian because voting power is limited.
Only the community account balaenoptera is focused on supporting only Italian content through upvotes and through the weekly contest.
All members of Olio di Balena are free to vote for who they want based on personal evaluations.
If it's cause of lack of users I'd understand
The main goal of the community is to increment italian contents and italian users (onboarding new users) but is also to encourage the creation of content on Hive, preferably in Italian. I have noticed that many who write on Odb not in Italian mainly write content related to Hive-based games that have no specific community or rarely receive support in other communities.
Certainly the @fedesox vote is a strong incentive to post on Odb as it is for all communities that have orcas or whales curating content in specific communities but personally I see no problem in supporting non-Italian content on Olio di Balena community also because those who decides to give 3% to balaenoptera directly incentivizes those who participate in the contest (and future contest) and in the contest only those who write in Italian can participate.
by the way balaenoptera is a non-profit account and there is no personal benefit or community competition behind the voting to non-Italian users by the Olio di balena team.
Yeah I remember you talking about the balaenoptera account before, it's all good. Just feels a bit unnecessary to encourage "any" content and in "any" language, but I guess some users go wherever there's an extra vote. Wish stakeholders would try to encourage good use of communities rather than just getting anyone and everyone to post there as it just makes communities lose value and for newcomers to have a hard time finding the right users if they go to a community and there's content about anything and everything (also a reason why we deserted the ocd community, lately it's just being used for intro posts for some reason).