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”?

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgMEnglish
    36·
    4 days ago

    The voting guidelines are an attempt to encourage actual unpopular opinions to “rise to the top”, so to speak, as that is the purpose of the community. Obvious troll (or other rule-violating) posts should be reported rather than just downvoted, but we kind of expected people to embrace the spirit of the community. While many do, there are several problems with this approach:

    1. As others have stated, people just knee-jerk to the downvote button when they see something they disagree with
    2. 80% or more of the people on this platform don’t bother to read the rules for any community
    3. Muscle memory
    4. Edit: When a post from here shows up in /all for someone who isn’t familiar with the community, we can’t really expect them to click into it to look at the voting guidelines prior to voting.

    We put out a poll a while back asking if the voting guidelines should be changed, but there was no majority in favor of it, so they remain the same.

    • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      I think the real issue is the all feed. For many folks on Lemmy, there are no communities, there are only community tags on an otherwise never-ending stream of flotsam scrolling by on the all feed. This makes it very hard to establish community norms in any case.

    • Sunsofold@lemmings.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      Can a comm’s name be changed? If we labeled it as something like ‘popular misinformation’ then people could post their unpopular positions by posting the popular position as title and then their reason for disagreeing in the body.

      Title: Cheesecake is the best

      Body: is misinformation because blah, blah, blah.

      People who aren’t paying attention will just upvote because they agree, showing it is a popular view, and those who pay attention to what the comm is will be able to follow the traditional voting rules for the position expressed in the body. It would align the voting schema to work together rather than in opposition.