Unpopular Opinion
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Vote the opposite of the norm.
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1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
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Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
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4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
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5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
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Sellers being also part of the problem is a fair point. But it isn't just about Lemmy being Lemmy; it's that unless a community disallows sellers, amateurs eventually leave.
This would probably need a different approach, like different comms for sellers vs. amateurs. Or, if the tag system were to be implemented, forcing people to tag their content accordingly.
About sexuality: the reason why I think that tags would've worked is that, once legitimate-but-shortsighted users stop downvoting things based on their sexuality, the trolls stick out like a sore thumb. And then you can simply kick the trolls out.
I usually browse top 12 hours or scaled and I haven't seen an actual amateur post in a long time, so I think you must be right.
I think the sellers would get upset of not being able to mix their spam outside their comms, but I agree.
Altough I don't have hopes for a tag system for a while, being careful of the tags not overlapping accross instances sounds like a pain.
At this point, I think everyone has blocked whatever they don't like (based on sexuality), so if that hasn't worked enough to stop the massive downvotes I doubt a tag system would work for that (since they don't only come from one instance and sometimes they create instances for that purpose).