[Dylan16807]

The way you've been wording things is less "benefit of the doubt" and more like there isn't doubt.

And it's not character assassination when it's such a vague anonymous anecdote.

Your wording strongly suggests that you took it personally and were defending yourself and them together. If that's not what happened you need to work on how you phrase these things.

[_jcyi]

I don't see that my wording suggests any of what you interpreted. I left a terse comment that should have been fairly uncontroversial, and others read meaning between the lines that wasn't there.

The top response at the time I commented implied that the individuals in question were "deliberate food wasters" and "despicable".

[Dylan16807]

> I left a terse comment that should have been fairly uncontroversial

The reaction is mostly to your second comment, not the first one.

> The top response at the time I commented implied that the individuals in question were "deliberate food wasters" and "despicable".

Okay? It's still a vague anonymous anecdote.