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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It's a bit insane to try to say no one can share opinions you don't like or agree with. Yeah, of course the same things a person says to explain why they hate olives sounds like something much worse if you switch the word "olives" for "Jews."
I've never seen anything on Lemmy that says it exists only for a few specific groups of people.
Oh fuck off asshole, go back to reddit where you belong
No sense in putting up with hateful, insulting people so I'm just going to add you to the block list.
Some person with whom i vehemently disagreed once pointed this out to me, and it changed my perspective, so here goes:
Blocking people on Lemmy only makes it so that you can't see anything they post. You aren't notified when they post a comment replying to your own, but _everyone else can still see it. I recommend using user tags in certain colours, so I have one for that guy who constantly misuses the thorn (þ) in his posts, so that I'm mentally prepared for the gut punch as a student of Old Norse and Old English. That guy has a different colour flair than all of the astroturfers, crazed tankies, and dickbags, because you can set a LOT of different user tag colours. Rather than blocking them, just set them to a red flair, so that you can safely ignore anything they have to say, without potentially being slandered or otherwise made to look a fool without understanding why.
Yeah, I get that but don't really care. I'd rather simply not have to see the idiocy, I don't care if other idiots congregate in and tell them they're very right and wise and it's crazy to think wanting to have sex with animals, or kids, or blenders is creepy and weird.