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.

  • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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    3 days ago

    Or maybe gen pop should get better at reading comprehension and learning to ask clarifying question if they are unable to understand content and context for whatever reason.

    That’s how discussions work.

    OR we can just SPAZZZ RHEEEEE, DOWN VOTE BIGOT SOYBOY!

  • andrewta@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    So instead of a /s showing sarcasm we’d have a tag showing sarcasm. What exactly is the difference?

      • andrewta@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 days ago

        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

  • PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.comEnglish
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    4 days ago

    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.

  • _NoName_@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 days ago

    upvoting because this is definitely unpopular. tone is not conveyed in text and various sarcastic phrases need the intonation to be understood as sarcastic.

    • PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.comEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Oh really?! Tone isn’t conveyed in text and you can’t detect literal sarcasm unless it’s broadcast like a beacon from someone’s warped piehole? Like a ship at sea in the calmest waters, you can’t find your way home without a lighthouse?

      • burgersc12@mander.xyzEnglish
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        4 days ago

        Yeah, if you give a fuck about your tone. Most people when commenting are going as quick as possible and aren’t going to use fucking markdown to make their text a little squiggly

  • XIIIesq@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    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.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe’s_law