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What’s your ultimate unpopular opinion? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 week ago by Kurtagag@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What are the "unpopular opinion" rules on Lemmy?

My original understanding from outside Lemmy is you should upvote the truly interesting unpopular opinions for visibility.

For example:

"I think potato chips are gross" - that is an unpopular opinion and I am truly interested in why you would say that...upvote.
"Elon Musk makes some good points" - not interesting at all and probably political bullshit trolling...no upvote and a downvote if enabled.

[–] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Even on reddit, my understanding was upvote if it's relevant to the post and contributes to the conversation.

[–] DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fair enough. In the Elon one there are probably some people that would want to hear more. It was hard for me to come up with an example.

We shouldn't downvote the unpopular opinion, we should upvote it. It's counterintuitive but we're actually asking for unpopular opinions. I see a lot of truly interesting unpopular opinions in here that are getting downvoted and I'm not sure everyone is on the same page.

The "unpopular opinions" that should be downvoted are the opinions that aren't really unpopular opinions and are just trolling. You know them when you see them.

[–] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

Agreed, I find it speaks volumes about the person voting whether they're genuinely interested in discussions that may challenge their views or if they lean more towards validation from strangers on the internet.

I'm not sure what the optimal practice would be for encouraging honest and healthy discussion and debate other than creating spaces where rules and conduct are strictly enforced. Like how /r/gaming and /r/games differed on reddit.