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.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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Upvoted as it's unpopular even if I heavily disagree with it.
Look at the big picture.
There's a high chance that whatever is causing that flamewar - be it a specific topic, or user conflicts, or whatever - will pop up again. And again. And again.
You might enjoy watching two muppets shitposting at each other. Frankly? I do it too. (Sometimes I'm even one of the muppets.) However this gets old really fast and, even if you're emotionally detached of the whole thing, it reaches a point where you roll your eyes and say "fuck, yet another flamewar. I just want to discuss the topic dammit".
Plenty people however do not; and once you allow flamewars, you're basically telling them "if you don't want to see this, fuck off". Some of those will be people who are emotionally invested enough in your community to actually contribute with it, unlike the passing troll stirring trouble.
Maybe three should be a community specifically for flame wars - a place where senseless squabbles and destructive discord is the norm. It would be a place where people come to fight and see others fight. Think of it as a thunder dome, but for online debates.
We can just start one here.
Hope you step on a lego punk
Hope you find your comma key, pal!
They're not your pal, buddy!
4chan-in-a-bottle? That would be fun.
Or a song by ACAB!