• nycki@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    What do you mean you didn’t say anything special? You called attention to something obvious. People normally only do that when they want to complain, i.e. “it’s monday” or “the bus is late” etc. If you want to call attention to something obvious but in a positive light, you have to say that explicitly, i.e. “it’s cool that there’s a lot of transgender people in the hacking community” or “nice, it’s raining!”. Neutral is negative by default, unfortunately.

    • WuTang @lemmy.ninja
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      Neutral is negative by default, unfortunately.

      I don’t agree, especially cause we talk here about reverse engineering which is considered as relatively hardcore skill and in the positive way.

      If I was saying: “There’s lot of transgenders in blackhat hacking”, there you might draw some negative conclusion.

      Anyway, that was not my intention and sorry, it is not something ‘obvious’.

      • nycki@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        You get to choose your intention. You don’t get to choose how it’s received. You were downvoted because people perceived you as negative, even if it’s not what you intended. Unless you have a better explanation?