Unpopular Opinion
Welcome to the Unpopular Opinion community!
How voting works:
Vote the opposite of the norm.
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
Guidelines:
Tag your post, if possible (not required)
- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
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.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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Yeah but if bots are not used and people feel like downvoting it is fair.
Some hot takes deserve to be downvoted at least person gets the idea that opinion is in fact unpopular.
It does get problematic where people down vote in bad faith ie a verifiable fact is provided that they don't like. Which does happen a lot on here and reddit. People care more about their politcal narrative over fact based analysis.
And why is that important?
for personal development
we all held opinions that might be wrong and with proper education, they should figured it out
OR
to confirm that gen pop are idiots and need to be educated, ex: current privacy debates and idiots coming up with limp dick
Abortion access debate is starting to make these clowns realize what is at stake, so at least we are making progress on this front.
I would prefer that "wrong" people without "proper education" be countered with arguments rather than jeering.
After all, without arguments, who is to say that the person who's wrong is not the one jeering?
providing proper set of fact and analysis should lead them to educate themselves, is the preferred tactic
but jeering has its place in the process also... if somebody digs in, why not have some fun for the benefit of the audience