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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I agree! There never is any confusion in text, it’s so incredibly obvious when people are being sarcastic. Tones are so easy to portray. /s
So instead of a /s showing sarcasm we’d have a tag showing sarcasm. What exactly is the difference?
Instead of typing /NSFW, Why do we tag NSFW?
Unless you want the ability to utilize the tags. For example : never show sarcasm posts/comments
Or
Only show sarcasm posts/comments
Then there would be a difference
There is no difference. The end result is exactly the same.
You can be as bitter about it as you like but it absolutely is required. You could come up the most obvious sarcasm you could ever imagine, and I’ll find you people that believe you’re being sincere.
We live in the post satire era.
I’m not sure how your idea for a sarcasm tag is any different to /s, it seems to be a roundabout way to achieve the exact same thing.
As someone who has trouble with sarcasm (especially online), a good /s is always helpful.
This is a good idea, since its so easy to tell tone over text /s
I don’t use /s at all. I eschewed it a few years ago.
Some views deserve to be ridiculed, and that’s exactly what I’m trying to invite people to do.
Yeah, but the assholes will think you agree with them, which bolsters them. It’s much more fun to write out something they agree with to a T, and then add the /s tag. Completely deflating, utter devastation.
You’ll get over it.
Are you advocating tags for all inflections of verbal speach or just sarcasm?
The tag solution in my opinion would be better than the “/s”, you could hide sarcasm+ it would be just visually marked.
