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)
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/
If a person thinks more people should see an unpopular opinion, they snould upvote it. Theres no karma here. The function of up and down vote is promotion or relegation.
An upvote means that the content should be shared, a downvote means it should not.
And in walks the paradox
Yep.On the other platform, it often seemed to me like "unpopular opinion" was starting to be exploited as a loophole to promote intolerant views that would be downvoted nearly anywhere else. Paradoxically.
Which is a good perspective. Albeit arguably, but good
Downvoted. Popular opinion.
Should I downvote this then?
That's the question. It's a parabola paradox
I agree, therefore i down vote you!
That's how it should work, but I don't think people here get it. I'm seeing a lot of very upvoted relatively normal opinions.
Unpopular opinion, this is Lemmy/Kbin. Nobody gives a rat's arse about imaginary points and neither should you. Upvote or downvote as you feel.
No need to be grumpy. It's all in good fun
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We all know that. Everyone knows this. But getting over the csrnal drive to shit on people you disagree with is difficult for the individual, impossible for the crowd. That's why I take down voted as a sign of success, or deliberately frame things such that the people who would down vote can't without looking stupid.
The problem with this system is that it never worked
I know. r/unpopularopinion's top posts were always popular opinions. I'd call it ironic except that it's completely expected.
This is how r/the10thdentist worked, and it became what r/unpopularopinion should have been. So I agree
My opinion or the shitty joke a gave you?
Your opinion lmao.
I agree, so I downvoted.
I wonder if on Lemmy, it's possible to just switch the up and down votes for a community?
Probably not. It's not that it's not possible, but that would mean that there's a change that the greater whole would have to make. Plus to code something as miniscule as that is neither worthwhile or profitable
Upvotes shouldn't be tied to agreement imo
So, you’re saying I should downvote, because the chemistry joke is funny?