A few examples include s*x questions on askreddit, “this” comments, nolife powermods, jokes being more frequent than actual answers

  • Tordoc ( Tordoc@beehaw.org ) 
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    3 years ago

    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.