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What's up with the slash s in many people's comments lately ? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by lemmyreader@lemmy.ml to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ml

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A new hype ? Or are these sed (streaming editor) users in disguise ?

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[–] luciole@beehaw.org 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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".

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 2 points 7 months ago

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@beehaw.org -1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Also fuck sarcasm. Instead of trying hard to make other positions look dumb, just explain your own position. /rant

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 points 7 months ago

I can believe this is not sarcasm