50
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 08 Mar 2024
50 points (74.0% liked)
Unpopular Opinion
6293 readers
28 users here now
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/
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
I think what people get wrong is that any statement that would get downvotes in other communities must necessarily get upvotes in this one. That's not how it works.
"Pizza tastes better without cheese" is an unpopular opinion.
"I think we should all pee on people whenever we feel like it" is just the ramblings of an insane person. It's unpopular sure, but it's insane. It's trivial to make these.
"I dislike x race" is just racist. It can also be unpopular but if it were allowed this community would just be a racist community.
Unpopular implies that the opposing position is popular - meaning that lots of people consciously hold that opinion.
For a less disgusting example, "everybody should eat bananas" is an uncommon opinion but it's not unpopular because "nobody should eat bananas" is not a common opinion
That's how I vote, if someone is just there to troll or be stupid then downvote.
Another one I saw on here was trying to argue against a fact by calling it an unpopular opinion. And then trying to say “well it’s just a conspiracy theory”. Arguing against a fact isn’t an opinion, it’s just flat out wrong.