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        • Hawke@lemmy.world
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          7 days ago

          Not sure I should be engaging here but are you seriously stalking downvotes?

            • Hawke@lemmy.world
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              7 days ago

              Alright, I’ll bite.

              I’m a bit surprised that anyone would bother to note a downvote, let alone dig deep enough to investigate who downvoted and then specifically call them (me) out in the comments. It feels over the top and borderline malicious.

              As to why I downvoted in this case, two reasons:

              • discussion of someone’s pet name for a family member seems very irrelevant in this case, not particularly “contributing to the conversation”. I get why the question was asked and answered but it seems so far from anything important, especially now that it’s been explained.
              • it bothers me that someone would write as if the reader should be expected to somehow know who their husband is, let alone by reference to their pet name.

              Lastly, I don’t know why someone would ever be so invested in up- or down-votes at all. It’s not like the fediverse has the Reddit concept of “Karma” or whatever one wants to call fake internet points. It’s disappointing to have a negative total on a post sure but it’s completely ephemeral and irrelevant to one’s life.

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                7 days ago

                I think you’re overestimating how much effort I put into checking, but I shouldn’t have bothered to reply on it (removed).

                Thanks for taking the time to reply.

                • Hawke@lemmy.world
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                  7 days ago

                  Might be easier for different platforms.

                  On Lemmy/Voyager it doesn’t seem really feasible but perhaps it’s more obvious elsewhere.

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                7 days ago

                1). “His lordship” is actually a pretty common way to refer to your spouse in third person, it’s a cultural joke to the extent you can even get mugs of it on amazon. It’s not actually a pet name, he doesn’t get called that irl, just online so a better phrase would have been sobriquet or moniker i suppose, but my brain was still coming online in the morning

                1. just because you don’t understand something is not a valid reason to shit on it

                2. just because a conversation occurs that you don’t like is also not a valid reason to shit on it.

                The world is much, much larger than you are.

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                  6 days ago

                  It’s a downvote, not an insult. This whole conversation is a tempest in a teapot.