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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Am I wrong?
That's irrelevant to me. I see an account that is 5 days old who is already making very broad assumptions about communities and their history, having no context of why we have ended up here. I also check histories of people who make this post (and this is a very common post), and there's always a removed post in their past that ruffled their feathers. So, you're brand new to our community, you're making broad sweeping statements, I don't know if you're right or wrong, go prove it.
Prove what? That's literally how moderation works. (And more generally, and I was speaking generally, it's how certain undesirable forms of nation-governance work too)
So, seriously, am I wrong?
As I said, I don't know, prove if you are wrong or not to us. Open your own communities and show us how it's done, we won't know until you prove it to us.
As I said, it's literally how moderation works. It's literally the software we're running here.