No, you weren't being malicious, but I've been in many threads like this. It goes like this...

I make a post.

Somebody replies right away with something I disagree with. They weren't being mean, I just don't agree.

He replied "it's common knowledge honey lasts a long time."

Never once did I state that wasn't fairly well known.

This topic wasn't about that, it was about ancient aged honey. Which I argued that yes people know honey lasts a really long time, but the MAJORITY of the world doesn't think it actually is safe to eat after 3,000 years.

Then people decide it's easier to jump on the "hate OP" bandwagon because she happens to have a shitload of karma.

Then I reply nicely to someone and get downvote into oblivion.

What I mean by I can afford it is I can lose hundreds of thousands of karma and still have more than I'll ever need.

Plus I can pick up 20k in a day or 2 max.

I've been down threw this rodeo before.

What I meant by being murdered is typically linkers are better off never replying to anything in their own post.

Many users view this as double dipping the chip. You collect link and comment karma in the same post. That believe it or not drives many users insane if you engage one guy, which turns into 2,4,5,5,6 etc. Before yyou know it you link went +5 or 6k while your comment went -3 or 4k.

I was just simply and politely telling the very original guy he's wrong if he thinks people as a whole would eat this shit. You agreed, he agreed, we all agreed. Yet here I am getting -1s all over the map in comments.

That's murdered. 3 people agree, the 2 with no kkarma get +1s all around, I get the typical jealous fuck you OP votes.

See how that works?

It's predictable, but sometimes I want to defend my links.

That guy was wrong about "we all know this is good."

He'll never admit it, but I'll lose 500,000 comment before I delete this post.