Is my opinion that this Community doesn’t get more posts even though it has plenty of comments griping and complaining because, ironically, you are punished for posting unpopular opinions.

Defeating the whole purpose of the community. Now it’s one thing if people were just griping in the comments, that’s all fair. People can disagree all they want, just like the person can post the unpopular opinion. But I see a lot of the times that opinions that are truly unpopular are actually deleted, censored, or the account is banned. Not because they are a troll, or bigot but because they said something UNPOPULAR.

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me. I think this era of internet generation has forgotten this phrase. Now let’s talk about the irony.

A bigot by definition is one who is strongly partial to one’s own group, religion, race, or politics, and is intolerant of those who differ. When someone is censored for having an unpopular opinion by those in the comments who keep begging mod to delete them or whatever methodology is used to get rid of that unpopular opinion’s post, they are, ironically, the bigots.

For they are so intolerant of an opinion that differs from theirs they attempt to remove it from reality. 💅🏻

  • Feyd@programming.devEnglish
    22·
    19 hours ago

    Not because they are a troll, or bigot but because they said something UNPOPULAR.

    This person’s last account got banned for bigotry lol

    • LunatiQue Goddess @lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      314·
      18 hours ago

      No I got banned on a different instance because they censored me for an unpopular opinion “lol” you all are the bigots this is the irony

      • rowdy@piefed.socialEnglish
        16·
        17 hours ago

        Ah the classic “no u” defense. Truly the mark of a strong mind.

        Go ahead then, what was the unpopular opinion? If you were banned from a separate instance, then you never even gave this one a chance and came here for what exactly?

        Edit: Nevermind. I peeped their profile and its just a bad troll. Block and move on.

  • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    13 hours ago

    People don’t post “unpopular opinions” because they’re cowards who care too much about internet points. It’s not a crime to be a coward but that’s the reality of things. I mean, you won’t even share your views in earnest in a pseudonymous forum?!

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
    21·
    19 hours ago

    Is this community meant to be something like a safe space? I thought we just blast random opinions out there (minus politics) and have fun with them?? I mean if people demanded posts to be removed… I haven’t seen that. That might or might not be besides the point of this entire thing. I mean if it’s against the community rules it needs to be removed. Other than that, this is for unpopular opinions.

  • Komodo Rodeo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    18 hours ago

    I’ll argue that as much as people don’t understand the whole point of unpopular opinion posts/memes, ironically downvoting because they don’t like what’s being said, many “unpopular opinion” (finger quotes doing some heavy lifting here) posts/memes are just absolute low effort, garbage hot-takes, or non-sense that are downvoted because their OP is unintentionally shit posting instead of shitposting.

  • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
    91·
    19 hours ago

    Part of the problem is just the way Lemmy serves content. If you’re browsing All, it’s not always immediately obvious what community a post belongs to, so someone is just scrolling along and sees a post title like “The protests in the USA are useless” or “Rich people aren’t the reason for your suffering”, and reacts negatively to it without considering the context it was posted in.