Personally I think not having karma limits is nice currently! I understand why they were used but grinding karma as a lurker on reddit was frustrating.

  • Melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Never got the resistance to /s. Some people just struggle with understanding sarcasm, seems an easy way to avoid misunderstanding.

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      The /s tag is important to easily recognize sarcasm, especially for neurodivergent people.

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      Yeah, sarcasm doesn’t translate well in text. At times, it’s easy to identify a sarcastic comment, and sometimes it’s not clear. I have myself interpreted comments on differently before seeing the /s at the end. Changes the entire perspectives sometimes.

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      I think because for those who do understand it the /s just ruins the joke. So I don’t think there is pleasing both sides.

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      Part of the humor in sarcasm is feigned sincerity.

      It’s like explaining the joke immediately after telling it. If you have to tell everyone its sarcasm, then you’ve done a bad job at deploying sarcasm.

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        Except half the trick to deploying sarcasm is to use tone of voice, which you can’t do in a text-only format. /s is like a shortcut for that. To use a face-to-face example, it’s like saying something sarcastic with a straight face then cracking a smile to reveal you were joking all along.

        Plus we’re on the internet, people have some terrible takes that totally seem like they should be sarcastic but just aren’t.

        I guess I do get it though. /s does take some of the humor out of it, but it seems like more than a worthy tradeoff. People are just so hostile to it.

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          Telling jokes in a text medium isn’t new and sarcasm is frequently used without hackish writers rushing to reassure everyone that they were only kidding. If you can’t do a sarcasm without an ‘/s’ then just don’t do one.

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      Agreed. I can’t tell you how many times in business I’ve seen a matter of fact text or email set someone off thinking the sender was some sort of monster. Try to add any humor and it can be 100% worse when it comes to interpreting.

      I never had an issue with the /s used. Yes, I could read it as sarcasm 90% of the time before it appeared. But to me the written word should always add clarity. If the one commenting felt it should be used then so be it.