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Unpopular Opinion

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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.



Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/

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Now, before you tell me "this is a popular opinion wtf!", realize that this would get deleted on Reddit pretty quickly.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Now, before you tell me "this is a popular opinion wtf!", realize that this would get deleted on Reddit pretty quickly

The crux of this type of community. The popular opinion on Lemmy could be somewhere else's unpopular opinion and vice versa.

Considering Lemmy is the smaller site, it stands to reason our collective opinion is the minority of a lot of other places.

[–] admiralpatrick 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The crux of this type of community. The popular opinion on Lemmy could be somewhere else's unpopular opinion and vice versa.

Yeah, that's why we added the optional guideline to tag opinions as generally unpopular or unpopular on Lemmy. Quite often, those are two very different things.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wait... There are tags? I don't think they display on the app I use.

[–] admiralpatrick 3 points 9 months ago

Not real tags, just [Tag] in the post title.

e.g. [General] Cheerios are the Best Cereal