context also heavily welcome.

  • snooggums
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    14 hours ago

    This is a common social media trend so it shouldn’t be surprising that it happens on lemmy too.

    Most of the time when I see a seemingly innocuous comment being downvoted checking the user history shows they are actually meaning it in a negative way or pregending to the sarcastic. But yeah, it sucks when it is just a misunderstanding as that certainly happens too.

    Sometimes for fun when I get the occasional comment that gets misinderstood I slap on an edit pointing that out fully expecting more downvotes, but sometimes it turns around. Always worth it.