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We need to stop using /s unless there is a need. (feddit.org)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

upvoting because this is definitely unpopular. tone is not conveyed in text and various sarcastic phrases need the intonation to be understood as sarcastic.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Yes? I mean... No? I mean... Help are they being sarcastic?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The problem is readers where English isn’t their primary language.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Or they're neurodivergent. Or they're fucking nazis trying to gaslight new recruits, claiming that the OP isn't actually being sarcastic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I have a modest proposal.