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.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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I didn't say I don't like their opinion, I'm entirely indifferent to their opinion. You can check if you want, votes are public if your tech-savvy enough to find them (I'm not or I'd link). I don't even have tattoos, but other people having them doesn't affect me in any way. The sentence was in quotes, so I asked if they had "actually heard someone say" that statement and they equivocated. 🤷♂️ I thought the question was pretty explicit in what it was asking, but they still managed to answer a different question.
I just don't get why you'd constrain your question like that when "Do you think my tattoo is cool?" could be implied in the interaction because, like you said, people don't talk like that. But people do mean it when they're fishing for compliments. So you're unnecessarily asking them to justify what could be interpreted a different way without conflict in meaning just like OP said. That's what looks to me like you're attempting some gotcha question after being given a reasonable answer.
I didn't constrain my question, that implies I had a different question that I changed. I asked the question I was interested in hearing an answer to. Op chose not to answer that question, so I speculated as to why that was. I was honestly curious if they had heard someone say the thing they put in quotes. That's all. Arguably every social media post is just someone seeking validation, so that non-answer "example" rang extra hollow for me. Especially when my question was so unambiguous.