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.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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I never really got it. Like linkedin as a way of keeping a link to people you have worked with makes some sense. Its nice for giving and leaving references without people having to chase you down by phone. something like facebook is nice to keep contact with folks you basically lose contact with over time. thats about it to me.
Except it's also an important tool to ensure continued employment, and so people have taken to turning the public part of it into an unorganized sycophancy contest.
yeah I don't even get posting on linkedin. Its like anyone paying attention is not worth currying favor with. Its all just a big circle jerk.
It was supposed to have been an important tool. But too bad the idea of this so-called "innovation" got in the way and LinkedIn got stuffed with a bunch of features that nobody asked for.
When originally, it was to have been a network of strictly employees, employers and those looking for work so that everything can be narrow and linear with communication. It was about finding jobs, acquiring jobs and people who show their profiles that served as better presented resumes.
Now it's none of that almost.