We need to stop using /s unless there is a need.
We need to stop using /s unless there is a need.
I think most people who use it are just scared from the uneducated downvotes/ backlash and I think it just ruins the sarcasm.
I started to avoid using it on other social media as it seems kind of dumb.
My opinion for it on Lemmy is mostly the same but it might work better here if Lemmy had a sarcasm tag instead(the same way NSFW tag work)of /s to signal the sarcasm instead.
I've seen at least 4 misunderstandings on lemmy where someone explicitly asked for a /s tag in the end. It's very much needed.
upvoting because this is definitely unpopular. tone is not conveyed in text and various sarcastic phrases need the intonation to be understood as sarcastic.
Oh really?! Tone isn't conveyed in text and you can't detect literal sarcasm unless it's broadcast like a beacon from someone's warped piehole? Like a ship at sea in the calmest waters, you can't find your way home without a lighthouse?
Yes? I mean... No? I mean... Help are they being sarcastic?
No, there isn't. Tone is inflection in speech and body-language. In text, you might reasonably think it could be inferred, but that doesn't mean it can't be conveyed. And if someone is missing the inference, piling on "evidence of tone" phrases could be misinterpreted as "more proof of conviction".
Use /s. If you get downvoted because you didn't, that's on you.
Yeah, if you give a fuck about your tone. Most people when commenting are going as quick as possible and aren't going to use fucking markdown to make their text a little squiggly
I agree! There never is any confusion in text, it's so incredibly obvious when people are being sarcastic. Tones are so easy to portray. /s
You can be as bitter about it as you like but it absolutely is required. You could come up the most obvious sarcasm you could ever imagine, and I'll find you people that believe you're being sincere.
We live in the post satire era.
I'm not sure how your idea for a sarcasm tag is any different to /s, it seems to be a roundabout way to achieve the exact same thing.
As someone who has trouble with sarcasm (especially online), a good /s is always helpful.
This is a good idea, since its so easy to tell tone over text /s
yOu DoN't NeEd A sArCaSm TaG!
Are you advocating tags for all inflections of verbal speach or just sarcasm?
So instead of a /s showing sarcasm we’d have a tag showing sarcasm. What exactly is the difference?
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Unless you want the ability to utilize the tags. For example : never show sarcasm posts/comments
Or
Only show sarcasm posts/comments
Then there would be a difference
There is no difference. The end result is exactly the same.
You’ll get over it.
I don't use /s at all. I eschewed it a few years ago.
Some views deserve to be ridiculed, and that's exactly what I'm trying to invite people to do.
Yeah, but the assholes will think you agree with them, which bolsters them. It's much more fun to write out something they agree with to a T, and then add the /s tag. Completely deflating, utter devastation.
I agree. It seems fragile to be be so afraid of... Checks nots purposeless down votes from random that are mostly bots.
Or maybe gen pop should get better at reading comprehension and learning to ask clarifying question if they are unable to understand content and context for whatever reason.
That's how discussions work.
OR we can just SPAZZZ RHEEEEE, DOWN VOTE BIGOT SOYBOY!
Kalama ate my dog tho