Strongly disagree with most of this but upvoting because I am actively in favor of people laying out their reasoning for unpopular positions so that people can engage with the reasoning directly, rather than only operating only on the level of “this is wrong and you should feel bad”.
I disagree with this policy, for what it’s worth. I think you should upvote high quality posts, where the author uses good reasoning in favour of a conclusion you disagreed with or hadn’t considered, which you think deserve more attention—not just every post that makes an unpopular argument!
Yeah I wouldn’t upvote every post that makes an unpopular argument. But I upvote posts that I want to encourage on the margin, which includes posts that are wrong but better to make than not to.
Strongly disagree with most of this but upvoting because I am actively in favor of people laying out their reasoning for unpopular positions so that people can engage with the reasoning directly, rather than only operating only on the level of “this is wrong and you should feel bad”.
I disagree with this policy, for what it’s worth. I think you should upvote high quality posts, where the author uses good reasoning in favour of a conclusion you disagreed with or hadn’t considered, which you think deserve more attention—not just every post that makes an unpopular argument!
Yeah I wouldn’t upvote every post that makes an unpopular argument. But I upvote posts that I want to encourage on the margin, which includes posts that are wrong but better to make than not to.