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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Just hexbear did the trick for me, although I also dont shy away from blocking users if I find nothing of value coming from their comments.
I have done this several weeks ago, and I agree it helps.
They will still be able to influence votes, I believe. Defederation is the only way to prevent that.
Lemmygrad certainly won't downvote me they banned me in the first what three days of me making an account so they can't see my comments. I wear the title "NATO apologist" with pride (even though I don't like NATO), translated it means "Doesn't want Ukraine invaded and argues so well that it might actually pull people away from our cult".
They don't ban you for simply going "tankies bad", they thrive on that kind of easily dismissible stuff, fuels their victim complex and provides them, by downvoting, with a sense of agency and accomplishment they lack in the real world. Tons of threads that look very different when you're looking at them from lemmygrad.
I'm not worried about them downvoting people. I'm worried about them upvoting whatever fits their agenda to the top of the front page.
Then they will also implicitly upvote the takedown comment that debunks it to smithereens, that they can't see because they've long since banned everyone posting such comments.
If you tally votes by stance that might be an issue, but if you tally them by quality or impact the situation looks quite different. You'll see, nay actually you do see (or at least I have), a +80-50 comment on the top, directly followed by a +50-0 one debunking it. Noone is going to take the first one seriously with that ratio. Even not being aware of lemmygrad, people would just assume that the first comment's original upvotes were because the takedown hadn't been written yet. Bonus: The first comment came from lemmygrad and its OP can't even see the rebuttal and follow up with further bullshit, saving everyone lots of time.
It's just as bad on Lemmy.world.
Got people here literally rooting for the Houthis and Hamas, which are both part of nearly identical, extreme, right wing authoritarian ideologies.