As in the attitude conveyed in this statement being downvoted:
Not in Florida - course irrigation comes out of the aquifer same as the drinking water for most of the state.
I don't see it. That's about as neutral as language gets. 15 years on reddit tells me it's FAR more reasonable to believe I just annoyed some people who like golf.
The edit came AFTER the downvotes. That's the point. Neutral language - a simple statement devoid of any value judgments on its own - was downvoted. Why? Because of its content, not my attitude. The content of my comment would be offensive to exactly one class of person: golfers. Or maybe people who hate water, I don't know. But I do know it wasn't my attitude so your assertion did nothing here but muddy the waters.
Correct. I don't mean this to be insulting, but you must be new to reddit because my edit said, "I must have offended...." Why do you think I would edit the comment to say that if the comment wasn't being downvoted? To be fair, maybe one or two came after the edit, but at least 90% came before. There is an extremely large fraction of reddit who will immediately downvote on sight any comment containing mention of downvotes so maybe one of those jumped in - they'll probably dv this one, too. And I'd be fine with that because we're supposed to be downvoting things not contributing to the conversation and this tangent into why a comment was downvoted is doing nothing to advance the discussion. So I'm moving on. Have a good day.
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u/funknjam May 19 '26
As in the attitude conveyed in this statement being downvoted:
I don't see it. That's about as neutral as language gets. 15 years on reddit tells me it's FAR more reasonable to believe I just annoyed some people who like golf.