and no one irl even has the decency to agree with me because it’s so fucking drilled into the culture that these fucking BuNsInNesSes have a Right to do this because it’s a bSUsniEss. like oh yeah they have an office building so they definitely get to analyze my piss because they say they want to. sick fucking freaks.
preaching to the choir a bit on lemmy (or i would hope so at least) but still
Does this community work like r/unpopularopinion where you’re supposed to upvote if you disagree and downvote otherwise? I agree, but I’m not sure which action to take.
I upvote if the opinion is genuinely unpopular, regardless of whether or not I agree, and taking into account that agreement in this subreddit does not mean agreement in life.
There are a lot of things that are popular on lemmy, or even just online, that are deeply unpopular opinions, and I think those should get upvotes here.
“Subreddit”. Fix your bad habit lol
Was that actually in the rules for that subreddit?
Because I certainly never noticed it being treated that way.
I’m not going to load up R*ddit just to double-check, but yeah, I’m pretty sure that’s how it was supposed to work.
I couldn’t resist so I did double check.
You’re right… I guess I should read rules more often.
I upvote if I think it’s a valuable, earnest, or funny/clever statement. I only downvote if it is completely irrelevant or rudely disruptive for discussion.
I think it’s good to think twice before downvoting. If it’s a point of view that you despise or behavior that you can’t stand, it might be better for the public to see how that is handled in a forum (through words). Why try to push it away from sight when you could instead demonstrate to other viewers how to help a dummy out?
However you choose to vote and how often, don’t stress about it too much
I was asking because posts (not comments, just posts) in r/unpopularopinion had special, non-standard rules. The idea was to upvote posts you didn’t like so that the most unpopular opinions were the ones that got the most visibility/discussion.