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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This is a very unpopular opinion in online discourse, where discussion can only ever be "won". I think this is an inherent property of the medium and cannot be changed. But one can dream...
People should learn that it's okay to differ from opinions and that it's no shame at all to admit you were wrong when presented with actual facts.
I'm kidding of course, this is the intenet so fuck your opinions, yo momma is fat and...
Up to a certain point, then you're crossing the paradox of tolerance. Where that point exactly lies is the issue, and unfortunately many people refuse to practice introspection of their own beliefs to find where that point actually is and will instead just try to force their biases of what is tolerable or not onto others.
I instantly have more respect for people doing this and I think a lot of people do. There is a famous reddit post about a flat earther admitting he was wrong for example. Maybe we should consider it a strength of someones character (which it already is imo) to encourage it.