One of my most hated things in the dying days of Reddit is people having to put the /s because of all the mass down voting from users that didn’t get a post was a joke.

When I came here it seemed that wasn’t the case but I’ve noticed over the last month a lot of users using it or having -28 points for an off the cuff comment.

I might be just be a bit too bothered by the need to use it.

  • blargerer@kbin.social
    342·
    2 years ago

    /s is a very old internet thing, not a reddit thing. It can be hard to discern jokes on the internet because we don’t know you and we can’t hear your tone.

    • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
      153·
      2 years ago

      And lately some of those “jokes” are basically indistinguishable from serious people that are truely piece of shit humans. The “it’s a joke” to save face after the backlash has been abused far too much.

      Or, get this, one could just make good jokes.

  • A_A@lemmy.world
    281·
    2 years ago

    Here you are addressing people from all over the world : they have different cultures, backgrounds, perspectives … and some of us didn’t have time to take our first coffee before reading your writings !
    So, be indulgent and take this smallest of efforts to add this "/s” please. I for one will be thankful 😌

    • metaStatic@kbin.social
      54·
      2 years ago

      That’s on you. /s is for cowards and always has been.

      /s just in case. plz don’t downvote because that’s something I definitely care about …

      • all-knight-party@kbin.run
        92·
        2 years ago

        It’s not really the downvoting that’s the whole reason, I also want people to understand and enjoy the joke. If I make a joke, and I knowingly leave an /s off, then I’m accepting that part of the audience won’t get it, and if I’m just trying to be a dick about it and the only person intended to laugh is me, then okay, but I like to make other people laugh and be happy, so /s it is.

        It’s clumsy, sure, but I’d rather be clumsy than come across as an ass or not make any sense.

        • metaStatic@kbin.social
          33·
          2 years ago

          did you not see the /s?

          do we need an indicator for meta sarcasm too? how deep can this really go?

          aslo /s doesn’t fix not making sense. I’m kind of an expert on that one.

  • LanternEverywhere@kbin.social
    284·
    2 years ago

    THE /S IS ALWAYS NECESSARY

    I don’t know how anyone could live through the last decade and not see how important it is to denote when you’re being sarcastic. “It ruins the joke” is preferable over it ruins society. Without the S idiots will read what you wrote and think there’s people out there who actually support their idiotic ideas

        • finthechat@kbin.social
          3·
          2 years ago

          On Kbin, in addition to up and downvotes, there is the Boost option, as seen in the picture.

          If you are looking at these comment threads on Kbin/Mbin, when a comment/post is ‘boosted,’ it is automatically moved up higher in the thread, similarly to if it had been upvoted a lot.

          Lemmy does not have Boosts, and so neither do any of the Lemmy clients on desktop/mobile.

          Lastly, on Kbin you can look at the ‘Activity’ on a post which lets you see who upvoted, who downvoted, and who Boosted, which is what is shown in the picture.

          I’m calling this guy out for being insecure and Boosting his own opinion to the top for visibility, despite the fact that he’s just parroting an already popular opinion in this thread.

          Edit: also lol, he unboosted his post at the time of me writing this comment. But the picture captures the original tomfoolery. Also I checked his profile and that guy regularly Boosts his own comments, but I bet he removed a bunch of those by now too.

            • finthechat@kbin.social
              2·
              2 years ago

              Not a paid for thing, anyone can do it. As far as I can tell, it was just a feature Ernest (Mr Kbin Sir Guy Creator) programmed without much thought. So it’s just a weird unique thing that Kbin can do.

          • LanternEverywhere@kbin.social
            2·
            2 years ago

            Dude you’re grasping at straws. I’m sure you think you’re a genius, but you’re not. You’re wrong about this, but nothing anyone says could ever convince you if it.

  • Nighed@sffa.communityEnglish
    254·
    2 years ago

    There are too many idiots around to assume sarcasm . (Definition of idiot may differ depending on political affinity)

  • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
    211·
    2 years ago

    Sarcasm is regional and cultural. I moved halfway across just my own country and sarcasm is different here. My sense of sarcasm is different from my dad’s. Add in different countries, native speakers of different languages, ages, other demographic contributors. People not getting sarcasm doesn’t make them “idiots” (most of the time).

    Writing so well that the sarcasm is 100% clear and apparent to all readers would be god-tier.

  • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    151·
    2 years ago

    Tone indicators like /s are vital for neurodivergent people who struggle with understanding people’s intentions, especially over text.

    In addition, you probably underestimate the amount of miscommunication that happens over the internet due to strangers communicating with each other without any tone indicators at all.

  • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
    101·
    2 years ago

    Tone indicators like /s and even smilies are great for text-based communication. It is extremely easy to misinterpret intent in text as there are no body language or auditory signals to provide context. As someone else stated already, use of tone indicators is good communication, making certain that one’s intent is clearly defined. This is especially helpful for ESL and neurodivergent people who may have increased challenges in ascertaining implicit meaning in a statement or joke.

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
    8·
    2 years ago

    For every completely unhinged and stupid statement, there surely is someone who believes it.

    Now, you see, if we didn’t put /s behind these posts, it would be impossible to tell whether we’re joking, or whether whoever writes the comment is actually that stupid. That’s just how it is on the internet.

    • Destide@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      31·
      2 years ago

      Not angry, as commented people have raised good points for it’s use then the thread seems to have been nuked and so convo stopped which is a shame.

  • jwelch55@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 years ago

    I don’t want to read shitty opinions, whether they’re real or ‘sarcastic’. If you write a shitty right-wing opinion, and suffix it with a /s, it still reads as a shitty right-wing opinion.

  • Anticorp@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    2 years ago

    People downvote reflexively here. Joke or no joke. S or no S. It’s getting a downvote.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
    42·
    2 years ago

    Idk I sometimes I write a comment thinking no one would take it seriously, but I read it and it’s something a troll would try to put through as genuine. Lemmy is overall left leaning and a bit of a hivemind but has diverse perspectives and passionate voting so I need to put the s in those cases to be clear.

    In real life you set sarcasm with the tone of voice. The s marker is the prompt to read the comment back again in that voice.

  • norimee@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 years ago

    Adding the /s is also about accessibility and inclusion since written sarcasm is much harder to read and especially difficult for neurodiverse people.

    I can imagine that the percentage of ND reddit and lemmy user are higher than in the general population.

    So by refusing to use /s you are actually cutting a big part of lemmy users out of the conversation.

      • norimee@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        Sorry, I didn’t see this post is 4 months old. I don’t know why it showed up in my feed…

        Anyways, good on you to take this information into account and changing things.

        • Destide@feddit.ukOPEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          I don’t think there’s anything wrong with posting on an older thread, your comment had good info