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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/
Looks like there is at least one Tesla fan judging by the down votes (at the time of this comment that is).
I downvoted the comment because I find that saying that Tesla owners aren't "capable of doing a little research" is not just untrue, but also unnecessarily belittling/insulting.
I personally would never buy a Tesla but I disagree with insulting people's abilities on the mere basis of them choosing to buy a Tesla.
(I downvoted your comment because I disagree with randomly making up reasons for a post/comment having downvotes.)
There's always a trace number of people downvoting everything that doesn't jive with a strict conservative doctrine, so you have to normalize for that. It's usually at least 1 on here.
Given how annoying this place would be for any genuine conservative to actually hang out in for any length of time, I conclude we're actually being monitored by someone(s).
Nah, I just like getting into dumb arguments on the internet. I didn't downvote him though.
You'll get tired of it eventually, if you're anything like I was. Regardless, we're clearly under attention, the hack last night was evidence enough of that. Given how much groups of people on the internet like playing games, I think it's frankly a little out-of-touch to think there's nobody intentionally observing.
You know you can see who's downvoting right? It's a lurker account with "Texas" in the username. Make of that what you will.
We can't see downvoter users in Lemmy 🥺
Anyone who runs an instance has access to see the names of people who upvoted/downvoted any comments or posts that get fed into that instance. So while you have to be an instance admin to see that data, anyone can become an instance admin if they want to. And I have a feeling it's only a matter of time before someone uses that power to write a bot that can DM you the names of people who upvoted/downvoted any particular piece of content on demand.
It is possible, but I think it only works if you have your own instance.
There are downvotes on lemmy?