But text can’t have a tone of voice or display body language, it’s use is to distinguish ourselves from the people who actually say and believe the insane stuff.
Even worse, is when some nutcase says something like this, and then gets upvotes and validation. Not realising that a bunch of people assumed it was sarcasm.
It serves a purpose tho, in that as text can’t have a tone of voice or display body language, you do need to distinguish yourself from the people who actually say and believe the insane stuff.
Without it, there will be a fraction of people who misinterpret what you meant. It’s not about “fearing downvotes”.
Right, but isn’t that something we effectively do anyway, with tone of voice and body language?
And if someone doesn’t pick up on our sarcasm in person, do we just let them go on thinking we believe something we actually don’t?
No. We do go “I was being sarcastic” and then they burst out laughing and go “oh damn, you got me for a second there haha”.
We announce our sarcasm in a variety of ways regardless of the setting. The point of making it unmissable online, is that if you don’t, there will be fraction of people who walk away having misinterpreted what you were saying. In person we can make sure that doesn’t happen, online in a public forum, not so much.
And since when is explaining a joke to someone who doesn’t get it, a bad thing? Are you seriously arguing that ruining the joke (whether it is even ruined in the first place is debatable, imo) is too much to trade in for helping people understand?
As long as Ghana isn’t full, we Westerners can keep consuming waste happily.
I mean, what is the value of a Ghanaian child compared to having to use a phone for 10 years with a third battery replacement?
/s …you dropped that.
I thought that was obvious enough.
It was very obvious.
But text can’t have a tone of voice or display body language, it’s use is to distinguish ourselves from the people who actually say and believe the insane stuff.
Even worse, is when some nutcase says something like this, and then gets upvotes and validation. Not realising that a bunch of people assumed it was sarcasm.
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It serves a purpose tho, in that as text can’t have a tone of voice or display body language, you do need to distinguish yourself from the people who actually say and believe the insane stuff.
Without it, there will be a fraction of people who misinterpret what you meant. It’s not about “fearing downvotes”.
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Agreed, but let’s not pretend r/fuckthes has a point in it being dumb and unnecessary.
Using it removes even the slightest room for misinterpretation. That is always a good thing.
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Right, but isn’t that something we effectively do anyway, with tone of voice and body language?
And if someone doesn’t pick up on our sarcasm in person, do we just let them go on thinking we believe something we actually don’t?
No. We do go “I was being sarcastic” and then they burst out laughing and go “oh damn, you got me for a second there haha”.
We announce our sarcasm in a variety of ways regardless of the setting. The point of making it unmissable online, is that if you don’t, there will be fraction of people who walk away having misinterpreted what you were saying. In person we can make sure that doesn’t happen, online in a public forum, not so much.
And since when is explaining a joke to someone who doesn’t get it, a bad thing? Are you seriously arguing that ruining the joke (whether it is even ruined in the first place is debatable, imo) is too much to trade in for helping people understand?
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