I cannot believe how quickly its transpired that people can’t pick up on very, very obvious sarcasm. I genuinely can’t.
The number of homeless children has increased by 50% n 6 months.
“We should grind them up and feed them to the Rottweilers guarding the multi-billionaire’s properties so they can save money on dog food and help create more jobs!”
The syntax of modern tone indicators stems from /s, which has long been used on the internet to denote sarcasm.[4] This symbol is an abbreviated version of the earlier /sarcasm, itself a simplification of </sarcasm>,[5] the form of a humorous XML closing tag marking the end of a “sarcasm” block, and therefore placed at the end of a sarcastic passage.
Just because one hasn’t been exposed to a concept doesn’t make it new. :)
It’s just Poe’s Law in action. It’s impossible to create satire that is too extreme, because there will always be someone who believes it to be a genuine post.
Without the voice inflection and body language of personal communication these are easily misinterpreted. A sideways smile, :-), has become widely accepted on the net as an indication that “I’m only kidding”. If you submit a satiric item without this symbol, no matter how obvious the satire is to you, do not be surprised if people take it seriously.
Jerry Schwartz, 1983, Usenet
I feel like it’s worse here than on Reddit. I’ve joined less than a month ago, and already had things ‘explained’ to me by someone completely missing how the entire sarcasm thing works, and got several downvotes on top. On Reddit I can go months between such occurrences, and upvotes usually indicate that people get the clue.
I cannot believe how quickly its transpired that people can’t pick up on very, very obvious sarcasm. I genuinely can’t.
The number of homeless children has increased by 50% n 6 months.
“We should grind them up and feed them to the Rottweilers guarding the multi-billionaire’s properties so they can save money on dog food and help create more jobs!”
“You WHAT?!!? These are CHILDREN!!”
the /s wasn’t a thing pre covid. I dont get it,
Tone Indicators (wikipedia.com) have been around for a long time.
Just because one hasn’t been exposed to a concept doesn’t make it new. :)
It’s just Poe’s Law in action. It’s impossible to create satire that is too extreme, because there will always be someone who believes it to be a genuine post.
It’s been around a looooong time, certainly well before covid.
Before reddit, too. I was using it on vbulletin forums decades ago.
I feel like it’s worse here than on Reddit. I’ve joined less than a month ago, and already had things ‘explained’ to me by someone completely missing how the entire sarcasm thing works, and got several downvotes on top. On Reddit I can go months between such occurrences, and upvotes usually indicate that people get the clue.