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Unpopular Opinion

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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].

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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.

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4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...

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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.

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If a person disagrees with an unpopular opinion, then they should upvote it (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by MoonshineDegreaser@lemmy.world to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world
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The person sharing their unpopular opinion is doing exactly what's expected of them, so why downvote it when you agree that's it's an unpopular opinion? An upvote would be you agreeing that it's an unpopular opinion. Downvoting it means you're either an A-hole or you disagree that it's an unpopular opinion.

Now I leave you with a joke. Silver was walking down the street and bumped into gold. Silver says "Ey, You'. Gold replies "Ey, G!"

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[–] MoonshineDegreaser@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And in walks the paradox

[–] pau_hana@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.