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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I thought unpopular opinion meant: „I feel a bit alone with my opinion on xyz, is there someone who shares this opinion?“ I think it shouldn’t mean: „Here is my completely unhinged take on xyz that would get me banished from my community if I ever said it out loud“.
So imho it’s expected to stumble unpon people that agree with you.
It should be for „ I think socks in sandals are cute.“ and not „Hitler was a great guy and did nothing wrong.“
That's a nice take, but it feels like someone is heading to a trap to be on the stage for mockery - "WHY ARE YOU BOOING ME? IM RIGHT" . People who want that should find a community specifically related to supporting their beliefs, and usually can.
I think that people who post in Unpopular Opinions do so to get the sense "Ok, here is my opinion, but we can all respect each other even though I have it". Also applies to your examples. Would someone who posted "sandals are cute" not get downvoted if the circlejerk against it wasn't big enough?
If my take on what it should be is right, it's also a litmus test for how accepting the community is - imagine a post "Hitler was a great guy and did nothing wrong.“ except all the comments just basically say "That's unpopular, it is right to be unpopular, and you may be getting caught in bubbles of propaganda that don't allow you to see it because of reasons xyz". You get to correctly identify a Hitler supported, you correctly identify just about the most unpopular opinion you can have, and you also have direct communication to tell off the guy. I suppose that also makes this community a litmus test on Lemmy and how the community is like.