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”?

  • osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org
    4·
    3 days ago

    The only unpopular opinions I have seen downvoted to hell (recently at least) have been objective facts that were incorrect. Saying your opinion is [thing that is untrue] should still go into a black hole.

    • TheObviousSolution@thebrainbin.orgOP
      22·
      3 days ago

      Sounds like you are just twisting the definition of opinion to justify this behavior. Objectively, it is independent of actual objective fact, it is by it’s very nature the complete opposite, subjective. A child can have the opinion that Santa Claus exists a Christian can have the opinion that god exists, an investor can have an opinion of future events that cannot possibly be related to objective truth yet. Words can have multiple meanings, but even ignoring the ones that agree with me, I can’t find any that agree with yours except yours.

      If that’s what you are doing, then I have more respect for the people who go “lol lets see what opinion they post now”, if only because one has more a shared reality to it.

      Your argument only apply to downvotes - I’m curious, any opinion about the upvotes of unconventional but otherwise popular opinions?

      • 5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org
        2·
        3 days ago

        The existence of God or how future events play out is unprovable, so you can have an opinion on it. But if you try to tell me „cat“ is the French word for fish it’s not unpopular, it’s just wrong.

        • TheObviousSolution@thebrainbin.orgOP
          2·
          2 days ago

          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.

          • 5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org
            1·
            1 day ago

            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.“

            • TheObviousSolution@thebrainbin.orgOP
              2·
              1 day ago

              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.