Well, this is a paradox.
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Don't tell me what to do.
If you agree with OP, upvote.
If you disagree with OP, upvote.
Yeah but then you're not actually seeing the unpopular opinions, you're seeing the popular ones anyway by sorting by "hot", because a lot of people downvote anyway. That's my point - for unpopular opinion, using upvotes is unreliable because a lot of people use downvotes for something they find unpopular anyway. Especially if it makes it to All, because then they might not notice what community it's from.
I mean, this is very meta. Do I upvote the obviously unpopular opinion to spite OP?
If you do, you just do things as normal, and agree with me that this is how it should be done, but think it's unpopular opinion. If you downvote, you agree with me but think this is a popular opinion.
Down voting doesn't show how unpopular it is, though, right? I don't think I've ever seen a post go negative on votes, only to zero.
Do you use a different system or app? It shows I'm currently at -2
I'm using Boost for Lemmy on Android. I'm not sure if there's a setting for me to enable negative votes necessarily, but it's interesting that there's a difference between clients like that.

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