What horrible antisemitism! /sarcasm because some dumbass people admit not knowing what the “s” means. Stop using the internet if that’s you
this post was submitted on 24 Jun 2025
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Don’t use the /s or explain away your sarcasm at all. It ruins it.
If people don’t get it, that reflects poorly on them, not you.
Functional literacy and critical thinking skills are important, now more than ever.
I disagree. In verbal sarcasm, there's often an equivalent, where the sarcastic phrase is said with a certain tone, or certain syllables or words are emphasized, to convey the meaning that that statement is sarcastic and not the actual intent of the speaker. That information is lost in written text, and something like /s simply creates a written equivalent. It hardly "ruins" the sarcastic statement when a verbal equivalent might be similarly blatant and the mark to signify sarcastic intent is only read after the rest of the statement anyway.
Just figuring out a sarcastic statement by virtue of that statement being absurd enough as to not possibly be intended seriously, does not work in situations where the statement is presented by itself without other context, and the assumption that "nobody would say that thing unironically" is false, because in such a situation, the sarcastic and non-sarcasic use appear exactly the same.
Further, having no standard for conveying sarcasm unambiguously would mean that someone who really did intend to say something like that unironically could simply hide behind "I was being sarcastic" when called out on it.
There is a name for it: Poe's law!
on top of that, for every stupid statement, there's somebody who actually believes it.
Just write it in italics you socially illiterate fuck waffle
NO
When you hold everyone's hands, you coddle them. Either they get it or they don't. The rest can fuck off. I'm also on the campaign against /s.
The way I see it, if you say something and others dont get it, that is more on you for failing to communicate clearly than on others for not understanding. At the very least, you accept any potential consequences of being misunderstood (getting into pointless arguments, being viewed poorly etc) if you opt to intentionally make your meaning ambiguous with something objectionable.
We see things differently, then. Maybe between the two of us, nothing much will change either way and we can both be equally uneffective.
In a normal world that would be true. In the timeline we've been locked in since Harambe, the absurd (often horribly and repugnantly absurd) is occuring so many times daily that it's necessary to note whether you're opposing it or adding to it.
What a horrible hateful person this is to complain about a bunch of stupid children wanting food. Can't she see that this is antisemitism?
Israel is an evil, despicable rogue state that has no right to exist.
Fuck Israel, genocidal scum!
If you are in gaza you have to option: die of hanger, or go to “aid distribution site” aka “trap” and hope you dont get shot.
800 people died at these locations. You can see it live on instgram.
Why do people write
Like this online?
It is incredibly
Annoying
Because average reading comprehension is poor. I had to start doing the same thing in work emails so that people would actually read them, because if I didn't they would ignore standard paragraphs that just register as lorem Ipsum text blocks to them.
Once you realise that most people don't read most of the information you give them, it sort of becomes a secret power. You can hide all sorts of things in a five paragraph email, let alone a full report.
I started offering cash prizes in the middle of reports, to be claimed simply by telling me you'd read that bit. Not a single taker. I stopped writing the reports after that, and no one noticed.
same here, started to see the pattern of people asking questions which had been in the third line of a paragraph they were responding to.
unfortunately new lines are effective in getting people to read even if it is annoying to look at
She's got the good vibes.