several posts per day here are a clear troll posts and bids for drama but are not removed. until this community’s mods start acknowledging and responding to this problem, this community is simply providing a platform for drama fiends who get off on making you upset. simply put, this is both destructive and frankly not fun.
and i’d like to point out that reddit’s r/unpopularopinion bans political posts. not saying that this is the best move for this sub in particular, but it is something that can perhaps give guidance on what can be done.
This community has too many unpopular opinions. please remove 3. I am not a crackpot.
I got your Grandpa Simpson reference. lol
Troll accounts are pretty easy to spot, especially if it’s always by the same group. Block and move on.
so true. since they are so easy to spot i vote that the mods block them and move on as well.
You’re not helping it any by posting this popular opinion.
you’re welcome. pls look up what a meta post is.
What do you expect them to do? Create a separate, even more niche, community for discussing the meta of unpopular opinions?
I expected people to be able to identify facetious statements.
I get it. It is a popular opinion here but it more so sounded like you were tired of people bringing it up
We don’t have enough good content to be worried about it being drowned out by shitposting.
Heavy handed moderation only makes sense when post volume gets too high for people to just downvote and move on.
I completely disagree. A well-moderated community is a good community no matter the size.
And high volume is extremely overrated.
I don’t know if a simple ban on politics would work if shitposts weren’t banned “Christopher Columbus discovered and saved America” or “Stoners smell like ass” aren’t political but they are bait.
I really just think communities like this are pointless. I feel like there’s a reason so many people have been making posts here talking about how people aren’t actually voting for unpopular opinions.
i agree with your assessment. the unpopular opinion brand has always been fairly cursed due to its paradoxical nature and an “impossible” subject to properly moderate. it would be easier if the sub vanished, but here we are.
the community here is in the top 15 on lemmmy.world and the mods need to learn how to wield that power or risk losing it to the trolls. r/unpopularopinion does not experience such obvious bait as the examples you noted, and i believe it is because of its more attentive stance on rules and enforcement.
i agree with your assessment. the unpopular opinion brand has always been fairly cursed due to its paradoxical nature and an “impossible” subject to properly moderate. it would be easier if the sub vanished, but here we are.
Even on Reddit the premise doesn’t work. One popular post from today says ““time theft” isn’t a real crime” and I’d say a majority of people agree with that. The posts are only unpopular with a minority of people.
It’s basically a shower thoughts community with posts phrased in a way where they are statements instead of opinions.
the community here is in the top 15 on lemmmy.world and the mods need to learn how to wield that power or risk losing it to the trolls. r/unpopularopinion does not experience such obvious bait as the examples you noted, and i believe it is because of its more attentive stance on rules and enforcement.
I agree. I feel like the only reason this community is so popular is because of people migrating from Reddit
How about you link some examples?
Two examples from today are “Gaza war is a lie” and “Christopher Columbus discovered and saved America”
If you report those posts then your instance admins will decide if they want to keep the posts. It’s not just up to the mods on lemmy.world, it’s your instance admins who are also letting it happen.
They sound like unpopular opinions to me.
You do realize the average American is MUCH dumber than you think, right?
You need several posts a day for there to be several posts that are poor quality. There aren’t that many posts.
have you tried leaving ?
i prefer to voice my opinions before i go scorched earth and block the community. :) i like to hope that others will have the same opinions and maybe something can be changed so no one has to disaspora.
several posts per day here are a clear troll posts and bids for drama
Isn’t this the point of this
subredditcommunity? Like, what else do you imagine would people post on a forum called “unpopular opinion”? It will have the same fate as its Reddit counterpart.There are a few community archetypes that will always gradually, but inevitably, cease to offer anything of substance without a strong understanding of moderation. Unpopular opinions, communities built around making fun of [topic], any communities that can be used for creative writing, etc… This community is a step further than most in that its subject matter is actively antagonistic in addition to being a potential space for creative writing. It’s doomed to fail without bizarrely dedicated mods or a queue of posts pending approval.
And all the opinions are normal and popular.
who cares. using a website is far shittier if half the posts get removed for spurious, transient reasons. just let people post and use the voting system already built in for content regulation
Clearly the majority of people don’t upvote things because it fits the community.
