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

  • grue@lemmy.world
    111·
    8 months ago

    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.

    • SCB@lemmy.world
      71·
      8 months ago

      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.

    • scottywh@lemmy.world
      3·
      8 months ago

      Was that actually in the rules for that subreddit?

      Because I certainly never noticed it being treated that way.

      • grue@lemmy.world
        4·
        8 months ago

        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.

        • scottywh@lemmy.world
          3·
          8 months ago

          I couldn’t resist so I did double check.

          You’re right… I guess I should read rules more often.

    • ShortYetLongDogs@lemmy.world
      42·
      8 months ago

      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

      • grue@lemmy.world
        51·
        8 months ago

        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.