• orangeboats@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You might hate the /s, but it’s really easy for peolple to miss the sarcasm (no matter how obvious it is!) when everything is in text.

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      1 year ago

      But but…that’s half the fun. Someone starts raging and every onlooker can clearly see they didn’t catch the sarcasm.

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        1 year ago

        Maybe…

        It gets less funny if 80% of the comments are missing the sarcasm/joke though. It can happen even when the sarcastic remark is obvious (usually because the first reply took it seriously, which set the trend for the subsequent discussions)

        That’s why I put a /joke or /s mark preemptively in my comments.