The other week, one of my friends got in touch with me regarding a reddit post that he got slaughtered over.

For anyone who doesn’t know, reddit is a website where you can discuss any topic you like. Each subject is called a sub reddit. For example, personal finance is one sub reddit that I used to frequent regularly before the commentators started turning nasty. I have stopped wasting my time there.

Anyway, my friend is also interested in personal finance and he commented one the attached post.

His comments have received over 30 downvotes and he asked me: “Am I wrong?” […..]