Perhaps it should be named “unconventional opinions that I still agree with”? Or perhaps “lol lets see what opinion they post now” (to be fair, the WHY ARE YOU BOOING ME? I’M RIGHT is sort of this)?

People are just upvoting and downvoting what they agree and disagree with, so it basically comes off as a trap to get things to laugh at - which it isn’t even good at. Should people not be voting on “yes, this is something that is genuinely unpopular”?

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    Then the opinion is wrong, but it’s still an opinion. You could probably very easily guile a small child into having such an opinion simply because they do not know better.

    Ironically enough, the opinion that statements cannot be opinions if they are factually wrong, is what actually is just wrong.

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      My point wasn’t: „Opinions can’t be wrong.“ My point was: „Objectively (or at least intersubjectively) wrong opinions shouldn’t qualify as unpopular opinions for this community.“

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        Ok, but in that case, people are going to downvote on their opinion of what’s wrong. Almost nobody is going to objectively check whether they are right about something being wrong, specially if they are the type to be wrong often. Your bar is too unrealistic for the average user.