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Do you have trouble detecting sarcasm?
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The best internet sarcasm is when half the forum is laughing at you and the other half is calling for your head
So most of the time being unsure due to lack of inflection on the internet is part of the fun imo
So most of the time being unsure due to lack of inflection on the internet is part of the fun imo
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Lots of slow people on era and discord, but overall I noticed that people on reddit a lot of faster to catch sarcasm and people with broken sarcasm detectors tend to get downvoted pretty hard.
I don't like putting /s at the end of my sarcastic posts as I think that they defeat the purpose of posting a sarcastic comment in the first place, but it's not like I'm super subtle with them, most of the time they're painfully obvious and people here still fall for them, it's actually kinda amusing in a way.
I don't like putting /s at the end of my sarcastic posts as I think that they defeat the purpose of posting a sarcastic comment in the first place, but it's not like I'm super subtle with them, most of the time they're painfully obvious and people here still fall for them, it's actually kinda amusing in a way.
Eh get ahold of monotone morrie over here!
But seriously, I knew a dude in high school with a really hard core monotone voice and he was legit the funniest dude I knew because he could just stoneface the craziest shit plus his voice led to many a great times
what a useful thread
i totally bet trump doesn't understand sarcasm either
i constructed a joke about a president considered a joke constructed by the corruption of american political system and its subsequent failing of the people
is this saracam or is this america?
politics is no joke
i totally bet trump doesn't understand sarcasm either
i constructed a joke about a president considered a joke constructed by the corruption of american political system and its subsequent failing of the people
is this saracam or is this america?
politics is no joke
Not at all, I often find it hilarious on here the amount of people that miss extremely obvious sarcasm.
I don't think I'm bad at detecting sarcasm online, I think people are bad at expressing it, making /s necessary because most text doesn't have clear tone of voice. The "/s is bad because it explains the joke" take seems pretentious to me since often to really make a point with sarcasm online you don't want to leave room for error. But of course sarcasm can be used in different ways and it's clear from this thread that some people like being misinterpreted.
No, I'm usually pretty good at spotting it. I've seen some blatantly obvious sarcasm on various forums that a lot of people seemed to take as real, I'm not quite sure how they could've been taken any other way, even without that sarcastic inflection you can give irl. The lines have been blurred a little nowadays due to the obvious crazy people out there who now feel emboldened to post their nonsense, but there's usually a stark tonal difference in my head as I'm reading a comment that lets me differentiate pretty well.
For text discussion, especially on a discussion forum I think you have to be really obvious or add /s because it's so easy to read something differently to how it was meant and also there are a tonne of people who have terrible opinions that would seem like sarcasm.
Came to post this myself. Being British I just assume that everything people say is sarcastic, though that did lead to some issues when my wife and I had to recite our wedding vows.
I'm much worse at dishing it out from time to time. In intent I'm sarcastic but my delivery is all wrong.
I've been part of several internet communities over the last couple of decades and GAF/Era users in general have been like... uniquely terrible at detecting sarcasm. I dunno what it is.
Gonna cast my lot with those who think using /s is incredibly lame.
I get that it's a solution to a common problem but sometimes the solution is worse than the problem. If you can't write something sarcastic in a way that most people will get it, don't bother.
I get that it's a solution to a common problem but sometimes the solution is worse than the problem. If you can't write something sarcastic in a way that most people will get it, don't bother.
I can tell sarcastic and joke posts from non sarcastic and non joking posts apart better than many on these forums given the pages and pages full of responses. Portugal post comes to mind. Worst is when posters reply to you thinking 'GOTCHA!' as if they've accomplished anything of note by not being able to distinguish different types of posts. This is obviously a risk you have to take when making such posts. And I look down on people who end their sarcastic posts with '/s'.
Telegraphed sarcasm by inflection is the worst. Its best to play it straight.
It adds nothing to the discussion and is often just there to trigger people or some kind of preemptive shit. Also, there are many times when it is completely inappropriate. I remember a number of godawful posts on the old forum during the earthquake in Japan. Tens of thousands dead, but I'm going to try to be funny. lololool.
/s is like anti-humour. Either your comment works in context or doesn't, if you feel the need to explain it then it was bad.
It's really easy in real life unless someone goes out of their way to make it hard to detect. The internet is much harder to detect. Same thing with ridiculous comments. I've made a few ridiculous comments that have led to me being banned for a couple days, one was almost a perm. (I'm not complaining about it though).
It's why people need to indicate if they are being serious when they post something sarcastic or ridiculous, because if not it will result in inflammatory remarks. Obviously this is what a troll wants, and it's why trolling is bad when you aren't doing it in person.
It's why people need to indicate if they are being serious when they post something sarcastic or ridiculous, because if not it will result in inflammatory remarks. Obviously this is what a troll wants, and it's why trolling is bad when you aren't doing it in person.