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Is one supposed to upvote posts that they dislike (as if it were "opposite day"), to show it's unpopular? Or is the goal to get as many downvotes as possible to demonstrate the unpopularity? It would be nice if the community info included expectations for voting on unpopular opinions.

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[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

It mostly worked on r/the10thdentist, until it became too popular and reddit adopted their algorithmic recommendations. Only problem was it favored silly unpopular things like "I like wet socks" over actually messed up stuff (which may be a good thing depending on how you look at it.

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