AITAH for how I questioned the appeal of a certain iconic theme park?
Am I an A*hole Redditor? I've browsed Reddit occasionally for several years after discovering it through AITAH content. I'd never posted, commented or voted on anything...until recently.
On a whim, I decided to post in the /NoStupidQuestions subreddit to ask something that's always puzzled me. Not that serious, I thought. I just asked about the appeal of a certain iconic theme park in Florida.
I was fairly blunt in the way I worded it so that the people the destination appeals to would understand where I was coming from and be able to give useful answers. You can see the post here: "Disney World sounds like Hell on Earth. What am I missing?"
While I received a lot of genuine, thoughtful answers, I also unleashed a flurry of unexpectedly angry responses: some vile insults (that the Mods promptly deleted) as well pissed-off comments to the effect of, "The answer is obvious." But then no mention or real explanation of what that obvious answer was.
After a few days of replying to some of the most useful comments, I realized that almost none of my responses were appearing. I did a little digging, and it turns out that so many angry people had downvoted my first two replies that it shot my Comment Karma down to lowest possible negative score before Reddit stops counting.
(For those who don't know what Reddit karma is--I didn't--Redditors get a few kinds of “karma" scores based on upvotes and downvotes to their posts and comments. Different subreddits have different rules about minimum scores to participate.)
I wonder if I might be the AH because my post and comments clearly upset a lot of people. The post, admittedly, was blunt. I underestimated how much of an emotional connection some people had to the topic. I'm generally known as a really nice person and would avoid yucking someone's yum in day-to-day life.
Was I being a jerk for the way I was Redditting? Or were the people who reacted so strongly the ones being the AHs?