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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In my language removed is used in several contexts and it means delayed - and although a non-native speaker, I thought the same rule would apply to English.
lol that censorship, pathetic.
It does mean delayed. In car engines the spark is advanced or retarded.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignition_timing
I certainly support not using it as describing a person as “delayed,” but there are non-offensive uses such as vehicle ignition timing can be advanced or rétarded. (Accent used here only to bypass the filter)
Alright I'll finally ask: In my Lemmy app ("Boost for Lemmy" on Android) your post's first sentence shows "In my language removed is used". I'm assuming the word you originally typed has been censored, but I'm not sure if this is a Lemmy thing, a lemmy.ml thing, or some app setting I missed.
Can others view the uncensored version of your post? Because then it's probably something to do with the app I'm using.
Been bugging me for months.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1464
Instances can choose words to go into a slur filter. They get auto removed. If it's your home instance doing it then every instance will see the removed version.
Thanks you, makes sense!
It’s because .ML is retarded.
It's probably a lemmy.world censorship - I'm also from .ml but I don't think it can control what we can read on other instances, and this post is on .world.
It isn’t .world. I’m on piefed.social I show your first message with removed and a couple comments down I see the actual word, so it’s something on .ml
Well, if it's .ml and not .world, it's easy to test as you are from neither. Type the real word r*tarded and you should be able to read it - if it's .ml, perhaps I won't be able to read it. Above a guy from .ca posted a wikipedia link containing the word and it's censored for me.
Does the link still work?
Edit: I found it at the bottom- no.
Here goes nothing...
removed
Edit: Well I'm certainly not able to post the word, but I'm still unsure if this is a Boost, .ml, or thread instance thing.
It's .ml
It's the most censored instance I'm aware of.
It's a ml thing. They're not big on free speech.
Wrong r word but I see what you mean