A few examples include s*x questions on askreddit, “this” comments, nolife powermods, jokes being more frequent than actual answers
A few examples include s*x questions on askreddit, “this” comments, nolife powermods, jokes being more frequent than actual answers
I get the objective need for the /s in this particular context, but we absolutely should add “using /s when the sarcasm should be obvious for anyone with basic reading comprehension skills” to the list
As someone who is incredibly tone deaf in written conversation, please don’t get rid of the /s. It really does help
I second this. Text is notoriously difficult to communicate tone through, and textual shorthands like /s really do help to clear some of the possible confusion. It’s a similar reason to why satire is so hard to do in text.
I don’t agree,
/s
is immensely useful for neurodivergent people, some of which cannot recognize sarcasm at all.Also, really often something that is “obvious sarcasm” for you is a genuinely held belief by someone online. Nothing is too ridiculous for the internet
Maybe internet forums aren’t the best place for people that can’t recognize context.
Why should we exclude neurodiverse people from a space when it’s easy enough to make it accessible?
Apparently reddit and lemmy are the only places they socialize, so whatever.
No but they’re here (and we should be being as inclusive as possible if we want Lemmy to be successful), so it makes no sense to shut the doors on them just because a couple of people don’t like seeing /s .
“Shut the doors on them?” Put the national inquirer down. Being hyperbolic doesn’t help anyone.
Anyways, I’m not on a server that defederats and blocks entire communities like that anyways. So your point is moot.
Congrats, you’re the first needlessly rude person I’ve seen on here.
Other than yourself? Okay dude.
Do you active dislike neurodiverse people or you just prefer to surround you only with people you can relate to?
Wtf kind of questions are those?
The ones that arise from your attitude in light of your previous answers.
First off, you’re commenting on a conversation from over a month ago.
Second, no I have no ill feelings towards anyone at all.
Third, yes I do prefer to surround myself with people I can relate to, just like every one else in the world does.
Welcome to lemmy by the way, I hope you enjoy it.
Try to not be so negative here.
Just because you don’t care about certain groups of people who are not actively damaging for the world, that doesn’t mean that they should be excluded from here.
Sadly, I understand your point, but feel that I need to remind you of Poe’s Law. I think the /s is required because shit is all too real
I’d often use it on Reddit in political discussions where I didn’t want to be mistaken for someone who actually held the views I was mocking. There were just enough of those folks popping in and out and it would be easy to mistake my sarcasm for a genuine belief. Ruining the joke with /s was better than being mistaken for someone with awful views.
HARD disagree. Tone can easily be lost through text, indicators like that can be very very needed. Especially accessibility for people who are neurodivergent who already have difficulties with that. But on top of that you have terrible people online who actually believe in the things we might be sarcastic about so without the /s people might assume you’re serious and just a horrible person.
There is nothing wrong in adopting language that makes our messaging more clear and accessible.