/s is an excellent modifier for sarcasm. There's no tone in text and bold/italic can only do so much. And with how many absolute crackpots are posting all over the internet, I'd prefer to be sure to not lump in a jokester with the absolute nutjobs.
Also helpful for people with trouble reading tone in text cuz of things like autism.
It wouldn't be the first time I get myself into a trouble because of that :(
To me it's born out of this moment: "Wait, will someone see this joke and think I'm serious? If they did they'd think I'm a psycho..."
Well, we certainly didn't leave that signature sense of superiority behind.
But I am superior
I find /s helpful :(
In a world where the most outlandish opinions are often genuine, it definitely helps to have a sarcasm indicator.
"This website that I and others like me decided to migrate to is much better than the place I left. That must mean everyone who decided to come here is super smart!"
Don't get so full of yourself that you burst.
I’d much rather have /s than comments that start with, or just say:
This.
Absolutely annihilates my patience towards humanity.
This is some solid grade A pandering. You're aware there's no karma to farm, right?
Maybe, but it seems all the people who think they are better than everyone else because they downloaded a different social media app made their way over here as well.
Lemmy is definitely heavily skewing towards early-adopters. Doesn't mean there can't be dumb early-adopter tho.
Nah, I still use it. You have to. The tone of voice is non existent. Sarcasm is indistinguishable from stupidity. It's impossible to tell and be right all the time without /s. It's just responsible posting to include it.
Without it, if your sarcastic enough often enough, you'll run into people who unironically agree with you on whatever you've sarcastically said. /s reminds those people who agree with whatever you've said that they are stupid.
Bashing denizens who decide to denote their sarcasm is as /stupid as bashing those who don't. "Oh no, now that the tone has been set the point is ruined!" Gosh, it must suck to be you, I'm genuinely sorry this is the way your brain works.
Yeah, all those stupid people who want to be kind to neurodivergents, understand that sarcasm is a tonal change which can't be read in text, or don't want their comments to give quarter to shitty people /s
Maybe don't call people stupid when all you're doing is whining about how language changes, a thing that languages do. It's kind of... telling on yourself, ya know?
We have editable titles and I see far worse titles, title grammar, and title punctuation in here than on reddit. Do you really think there's no stupid here?
You've put "/s" on the post title. Now, you've seen it.
All? No way. Many? Sure. That big scary "Federation" thing slows them down.
No, those people came over too. I posted something that I thought was very obvious satire and had someone think I was serious because I did not end it in "/s".
As an ex-Redditor I do /s reflexively because I assume someone will always be offended. Welcome to the Internet, I guess.
This post is a good example of the "stupid people" on reddit
You're getting mad because people indicate their tone of voice with a tone tag
Tone tags have been in use on social media for a long time
Thirteen years ago I saw this same meme but it wondered if we had left all the idiots behind at Digg.
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