Fuck the /s!
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So ridiculously few people are downvoting you cause you forgot the /s. They're downvoting you cause you were being a giant jackass and they didn't know they needed to assume you were the king of goodliness in order to understand your "joke".
Like 10 people on the internet advocate for the use of the tag (me, hi, I'm one of them) so trust that it's not cause you didn't use the tag. It's cause you're not funny, you just mistake nervous laughter as genuine mirth.
No
"/s" is the equivalent of ending a quip with a "haha geddit? haha"
If it's not clear you're joking or being sarcastic, perhaps the line isn't very good in the first place
And in Ireland and UK, we're all a sarcastic bunch. It's "a you problem" if the person can't get sarcasm. I refuse to add /s for the rest of the serious world!
You underestimate the reading comprehension abilities of the average human
Then that's on them. I'm not going to compromise the humor in something just to reach the lowest common denominator
I have autism, so it really doesn't matter how good your joke is, I will misunderstand it in fresh and novel ways.
/s is letting the audience know that it's a joke. If you think that makes things unfunny, then comedy clubs must be awful for you. "Why is everyone laughing, it's obvious he's telling a joke, that ruins the whole joke. Don't they know that ruins jokes? Jokes need to be secretive games where only clever people like me know they're funny in order for it to be funny!"
Gonna preface this with: I completely understand your difficulty, I have several autistic people in my life and I know that it's important to make reasonable accommodations to help make life easier. However conversely, a reasonable accommodation must not invalidate the initial reason for the accommodation in the first place. If the point is humour, it's a hard sell to force someone to, from their point of view, remove the humour from the humour. You wouldn't knock down a monument to install a lift to get to the top, sure the people with mobility issues can get to the top now, but the monument is no longer there to see.
Given that, an audience freely laughing at a joke is very different from a comedian demanding you laugh immediately after each joke, which would be a more direct comparison. The latter drains all humour from the situation, the former arguably elevates it.
Personally, if the point of a comment is to post something that I think is amusing, there's no point in doing it if I have to compromise what constitutes the humour to me, otherwise I'd just be posting something unfunny, defeating the object of it entirely.
That and it's the internet, we all have a better time if we go with the working assumption that the vast, vast majority of comments are entirely unserious.
I choose to believe that there's a strong correlation between being a downvoter and being an unimaginative, humorless bore.
I love having to wave a little flag every time I'm joking, it doesn't put me in a shitty mood at all.
Oops, I forgot to write it.
Is that the count from the EA "sense of accomplishment" post concerning Battlefront unlockable content?
Huh, i swear it's 7 figure, but apparently i remember it wrong.
Most downvoted comment
That made me curious about what might be the most downvoted comment on the fediverse
Needs more downvotes
It's been locked for quite a while so that's the final count.
No one down voting? Do you guys not have phones?
I'm not aware of any other post anywhere ever with over 600k downvotes.
Whats this "/s" for?
While the other response is pretty funny if you know what it means, its entirely unhelpful if you don't.
/s = sarcasm
It's to clarify when people are being serious. Sometimes tone is hard to determine over text, so people started using it to show that there is no inner joke, double meaning, or meta humor at play.
I'm seriously, you guys.
/s
Pointing to this whenever someone says /s ruins jokes. It's almost like being funny is the thing that makes things funny or not.
The new Lemmy switch-a-roo.
The / here is the closing tag indicator, meaning "ends here" and s is "sarcasm", so "sarcasm ends here". If there's text beyond that point, it's no longer sarcastic.
The day I have to ruin my own joke over fake Internet points
Reddit has gotten real dumb, even more so than before. Even in circlejerk subreddits people are taking stuff at face value.
Bots have no sense of humor.
Using /s is just like explaining a joke right after you made it. It's obnoxious and get's an instant downvote from me. Either own up to your sarcasm and accept that some people might not get it, or don't use it.