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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How about you link some examples?
Two examples from today are "Gaza war is a lie" and "Christopher Columbus discovered and saved America"
If you report those posts then your instance admins will decide if they want to keep the posts. It's not just up to the mods on lemmy.world, it's your instance admins who are also letting it happen.
Is that how it works? It doesn't go to the owners of the instance where the community exists but to where ever my home port is so to speak?
I think it goes to both?
That doesn't seem right. I could host my own instance and if someone was posting extreme content on Lemmy.World I don't think a report would bounce back to me.
If I reported content from exploding-heads for being alt-right because it was against my instance's rules but it was fine on their instance it might make sense but that kind of seems like it's going in circles. Especially when I don't think you can report specific communities. You'd need to either report users or individual posts at that point.
+1 for a very good question we all seem iffy on. is there documentation on the process and channels for what reporting does on lemmy?
I made a post on !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml about this you can find here if you want to find out with me. Tagging @rimu@piefed.social in case they want to hear from the Lemmy masters too.
They sound like unpopular opinions to me.
You do realize the average American is MUCH dumber than you think, right?
Could be or they could be posts to troll users. I am giving examples of what OP probably saw when they made their post in order to answer your question.
(edit: other users have correctly identified the posts i am referring to.)
i elected not to link posts because that will bring the drama here which is exactly what they want.
you can identify them because there will be one or several comments beneath calling out the OP as a troll. it’s not like they are hard to find.