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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I'm kinda torn on this because it amounts to the flip side of manners. It's a very practical version of it, but it's essentially saying that where manners are there to benefit everyone via a shared, consensual set of rules; rejecting those manners as a form of protest isn't polite to others. That's a pretty big stretch it what was actually said, but it's a way of breaking the idea down to examine it.
It also misses part of the point of walking away. Engaging with bad actors is surrendering your volition to them on several levels, so walking away is refusing to give them that. It's a form of self empowerment.
All of which means that I don't know if this is actually an unpopular opinion or not. It's really the default to complain, to gripe, criticize, critique and engage. So can that really be considered unpopular?
Also, in that regard, any time a post here insults someone that has a different opinion "...just leave is incredibly stupid" isn't really an opinion as much as it is rage bait. You could express the concept without trying to manipulate the audience that way. It smacks of vote begging. Taking the time to express an unpopular opinion their insulting the audience means that the opinion itself is being presented as the thing to think about and vote on. When you include insults, you're basically saying "down vote me because I'm an asshole, don't examine anything else".