Your comments don't appear gray to me, so not sure what downvotes you're referencing. But allow me to channel my inner HN and humbly suggest that the downvotes

Your comments don't appear gray to me, so not sure what downvotes you're referencing. But allow me to channel my inner HN and humbly suggest that the downvotes you're receiving, such as they are, arise from your assumption that if terminology is not "technical economic language," it is incorrect. You replied to a person who used a commonly understood term correctly and you claimed it was incorrect. Now you're saying that the terminology didn't come to have the current meaning until 2008. But I'm not seeing the connection between that and whether the terminology is appropriate to the current context. Why would anyone bother to cite you a source of this terminology before 2008? Nobody has even referenced a claim that the terminology is older than that. It's a non sequitur to observe that the terminology is young. The long and the short of it is that the person you originally responded to was correct to call the behavior "socializing costs." You were incorrect in your response where you claimed that a subsidy is not "socializing costs," since that's exactly what the term means in common parlance. The downvotes probably come from your not recognizing and admitting your mistake.