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this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2023
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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.
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- 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].
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1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
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If a person thinks more people should see an unpopular opinion, they snould upvote it. Theres no karma here. The function of up and down vote is promotion or relegation.
An upvote means that the content should be shared, a downvote means it should not.
And in walks the paradox
Yep.On the other platform, it often seemed to me like "unpopular opinion" was starting to be exploited as a loophole to promote intolerant views that would be downvoted nearly anywhere else. Paradoxically.
Which is a good perspective. Albeit arguably, but good