Isn't that very literally the point of the sub?

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[–] 29 points 10 months ago (1 child)

I know they banned an anti-vaxxer who only joined to post misinformation. I’m fine with that. That’s not an unpopular opinion. That’s an attempt to harm others and that shouldn’t be tolerated. I don’t really care either way, I just blocked the user.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago

    Some “unpopular” opinions are blatant misinformation propaganda, or bad attempts to troll people. Mods absolutely should remove this trash.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago

    It's the paradox of these subs. 50% of the posts reduce to "people think I'm an asshole but I dont agree with them." Another 40% are just agenda posting trolls.

    The rare 10% or so which aren't just cringe misanthrope or barely disguised bigotry are uninteresting. "I don't think Steak is very good." Cool story. "Being a parent isn't impressive." Sure but who cares? That's why these subs are just destined to be dumb.

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  • [–] 26 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Depends. Was it right wing hatred posing as “controversy”? Thats usually what it is when someone is here whining loudly about it, in my experience.

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    [–] 13 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Downvote because this is a popular opinion.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    This sub as well as the Shower Thoughts one are often over-moderated, in my experience. I believe people actually report posts that they don't think qualify for whatever dumb personal reason, and then mods cave.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    As long as the post is within the community’s rules, I think agree.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] [S] 1 point 10 months ago* (4 children)

    Impossible to give one.

    5 hours ago

    mod

    Removed Post Permanently Deleted

    reason: this is technically against some rules

    Very well-defined reason 🙄 and to be clear, this wasn't my post or anything. I was arguing against it until the entire post mysteriously disappeared

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    The OP thought furries are weird and appeal to pedophiles. Primary arguments were that they're often animation-based, which makes it for children (lol), but that furry culture is pretty hard-tied to yiff.

    There were one or two fair points but it was mostly just ignorant/misguided points. I don't think that's in any way basis for removal, especially not in this comm.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Not having seen the OG post and going solely off what you've said, that post to me falls in the grey area of someone who is misguided but maybe could get various opinions in a post, and someone who is abusing a conversational platform to spread hate. I do think at least a minimal amount of review on the comments should be a part in deciding if a topic is inappropriate for the forum, but sometimes it doesn't matter and the topic doesn't belong in this community.

    If someone came in and claimed that the Nazi party should be in power because all Jews are evil, that should be removed. There is no positive conversation that can come from that, and a user will just use it to talk hate speech. There's a line between bad unpopular opinion and hate speech, and usually the latter is what gets removed.

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