A new hype ? Or are these sed (streaming editor) users in disguise ?
- luciole (he/him) ( @luciole@beehaw.org ) 4•6 months ago
Comments ending with “/s” mean the author is being sarcastic. Clearly marking sarcasm is important because of Poe’s law, which stipulates that “without a clear indicator of the author’s intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views”.
Can confirm. Have been banned for forgetting /s in a stream once where I assumed it wasn’t needed because it was obviously ridiculous and my history there, but random mod thought otherwise.
Even recently here, I put quotes around something to paraphrase the argument some people make and then proceeded to make fun of it outside the quotes and I got a giant rant because someone didn’t realize I was arguing against that idea. Was not even sarcasm in this case, but I guess needed to put “Common dumdum argument:” before the quotes or something, so people would not get the wrong idea before getting to the end or a post 1/2 this size of this one.
- luciole (he/him) ( @luciole@beehaw.org ) 1•6 months ago
Also fuck sarcasm. Instead of trying hard to make other positions look dumb, just explain your own position. /rant
- Akasazh ( @Akasazh@feddit.nl ) 1•6 months ago
I can believe this is not sarcasm
- Boomkop3 ( @Boomkop3@reddthat.com ) 3•6 months ago
tone indicators, you can Google them as there are a bunch. Do keep in mind tho: different communities sometimes user different sets of tone indicators /g
/g -> genuine
- Jimmycrackcrack ( @Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml ) 2•6 months ago
Wow I only knew about the /s.
- Boomkop3 ( @Boomkop3@reddthat.com ) 1•6 months ago
Glad to be able to help!