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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People who get bothered about downvotes, don't understand how to use social media. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 7 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) by Joker@sh.itjust.works to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

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I used multiple social media platforms and I can say in medium confidence that downvotes are almost useless to see for users.

They are made to influence the algorithm and that's it, if you are really bothered by them it's because you saw something you were never intended to see.

Reddit try to communicate this by showing you only one number for the total score and they are trying to not show you if your post score became in negative.

Matter of fact, I personally find downvotes pretty refreshing for me because I expect to hear something I don't know or a passionate criticism on my opinions or posts.

I think what could discourage me from posting is the lack of comments, not the downvotes.

Note: If you are really bothered about downvotes, you can disable showing down votes on the web client and in the mobile clients by changing that option in the settings.

Downvote if you agree.

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[–] Blaze@lemmy.cafe 10 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Downvotes bother me because they impact the visibility of my content, especially on small communities

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

THIS is the reason.

Downvoting is literally a form of censorship. It's the virtual equivalent of shouting someone down.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 1 hour ago

Yeah but if bots are not used and people feel like downvoting it is fair.

Some hot takes deserve to be downvoted at least person gets the idea that opinion is in fact unpopular.

It does get problematic where people down vote in bad faith ie a verifiable fact is provided that they don't like. Which does happen a lot on here and reddit. People care more about their politcal narrative over fact based analysis.

[–] Joker@sh.itjust.works -2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

I sort by Top Daily.

That means that whatever downvotes you will get, I could still see your post.

I am sure that I am not the only one who does this as I first learned of this option on another social media website called Tildes by a user comment and since then it had become the default for me in all the social media websites I use.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.cafe 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

If I only get 1 upvote and 2 downvotes, my post would get buried for everyone and you would probably never see it