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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Your opinion is not unpopular, everyone wants these dumb repost/article bots that post the same link in 15 communities gone.
Yeah, initially I thought it would be a good idea to kick-start discussion for certain communities, but in practice nobody comments on those posts.
I ended up blocking the bots too.
The reason I personally don't comment on those bot posts is because there's no real OP that might be interested in my answer/opinion so I think "Why even bother?".
Pretty much.
Why do I want to read a bot of AITA on a different site? That really makes no sense to me.
Yeah, you can always block them
Blocking works really well cause there's so few of them. I've only blocked a single one (months ago) and haven't had any bot spam of the level of disliked. I still do see some from humans, but most of the time that's people trying to populate a smaller community where they're basically the only poster so far. There isn't really any other good options to jump start most communities, since people tend to not post (or even know about) new communities until they're active.
Report them.