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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Part of the problem is that the community isn't isolated, it shows up on peoples' All feeds, and folks who aren't used to a community like this see a really shitty take and reflexively downvote and move on without realizing or caring that that's kind of the point. We'd honestly be better served (IMO) reversing the norm, downvoting bad takes and upvoting popular ones... upvotes and downvotes don't matter on Lemmy even to the limited extent that they did on Reddit (they aren't contributing to a karma score or anything), so it wouldn't be a problem like it ostensibly would have been there.
Where's my upvote?
Kidding aside, my main concern isn't "karma"; can't speak for everyone though. While, I wanna see quality posts/discussions, I also really want clarity what people actually think are unpopular opinions. If the majority of the people want it your way, I'd be fine with it as long as people are voting consistently.
Also, if a take is reprehensible it gets taken down, like earlier today, a post was removed where someone basically said trans people are the modern day eunuchs. Yikes.
Unfortunately upvotes to affect a post's placement in /hot. I don't necessarily disagree with what you say (my comment below yours echoes pretty much the same thing), but downvoting posts that fit this page would hurt how it shows on certain feeds and give a false impression of the community to new users.