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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Telling people to accept bad things, just because they exist, is indeed very unpopular opinion in my book :D
Idk, bad things? Is it really?
Like roll back a hundred - ish years and all English news was jolly gee and phony transatlantic accent. Even when the news itself was serious, the style sounds goofy today.
Culture shifts, but that change isn't inherently a bad thing. Why is this style bad*?
So your point is that the language is changing, and "slams" (and such) now means any public commentary?
Yes, I can see that. My problem is that it's vague.
Random person politely disagrees? Slams. Shouting match on the Congress floor? Slams. Some celebrity writes a book about an unrelated topic and just wants to get views? Slams.
Its overuse has made it meaningless.
I should write a plugin that changes "slams" to "comments on". That'd make everyone happy again.
Yes, because it's not only a different way to phrase things but a way to change how the reader sees things. It also blows things out of proportion which again is a tool to influence the readers opinion. Media has become more manipulative and that has nothing to do with culture.