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.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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I don't get this sub, it's called unpopular opinion, but when one is posted it gets downvoted?
Shouldn't this sub be called something else then?
There's no effort here. If he said "Lemmy is more woke than reddit and here's why" and gave detailed, fact-based responses then sure, we'll have a listen. But to just pop in and say something is 'woke' with no exposition, no reasoning, and zero effort, yeah, it's going to be downvoted.
I often downvote on post quality. This post has "no body needed", which leads to crap content. Tell us why, or it is just noise.
This isn't reddit, there is no rule saying you have to up vote it if you disagree. It's just a space you can put an opinion that you think is unpopular, and no one cares about votes anyways.
When I see a stupid title I often don't even look at the sub its in before voting.
Context matters.