Is one supposed to upvote posts that they dislike (as if it were “opposite day”), to show it’s unpopular? Or is the goal to get as many downvotes as possible to demonstrate the unpopularity? It would be nice if the community info included expectations for voting on unpopular opinions.

  • person@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    I doubt most people would read it anyway. I only ever read community rules when I make a post. Regardless, it would be nice to have (I guess… since I’ve never posted here and so never read it)

    • morrowind@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      It mostly worked on r/the10thdentist, until it became too popular and reddit adopted their algorithmic recommendations. Only problem was it favored silly unpopular things like “I like wet socks” over actually messed up stuff (which may be a good thing depending on how you look at it.