I’m not sure if this is unpopular per se, but yeah, I don’t think people on here are voting in a consistent way and that makes it confusing to know which posts are actually unpopular opinions.
I have seen people say something like “nice unpopular opinion, take my upvote”, but the votes don’t reflect that sentiment when a truly unpopular opinion is posted and it’s heavily downvoted. Also, in reverse, posts that appear to be agreed-upon popular opinions are massively upvoted.
I think a good number of people on here downvote opinions they don’t agree with, which is a reflex I can empathize with, but doing that might discourage people to post here. So, I think people should upvoting posts you don’t agree with.
And I think that it should be posted clearly for people to read and refer to in the about section of the community. I think maybe it should be a pinned post too (at least for a little while) because I don’t think everyone reads the about sections.
TL;DR — For the sake of clarity, there should be a posted rule that basically states: upvotes mean you don’t agree with the opinion and downvotes mean you agree. So, if you agree with this post please downvote it.
Made a post on here a while ago to the effect of “posts that receive a certain amount of upvotes after x amount of hours should be automatically removed for being unpopular.” I think this is the only way to moderate this community. Reddit’s r/unpopularopinion stated its rules all over the sub page and people still voted with what they agreed/disagreed with; in other words, it’s a lost cause trying to force people to upvote things they specifically disagree with.
I think if down votes were somehow disabled that might help. Adding [Unpopular Opinion] before each post title might get people to wake up a bit before voting as well. I don’t think it’s a total lost cause but I do think as things are now communities like this are pointless.
Oh, these are good ideas
I’m not familiar with the original subreddit, but yeah, you’re probably right about that last point