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Excuse me, I think you dropped this -> "</s>"
by killjoywashere 9y ago
Excuse me, I think you dropped this -> "</s>"
- Stratoscope 9y agoJust as a great comedian doesn't laugh at their own joke, great sarcasm is best served without a sarcasm tag.
- mrhappyunhappy 9y agoMost insightful thing I read today.
- colordrops 9y agoAll my favorite comedians laugh at their own jokes... Dave Chappelle, Chris D'elia, and Bill Burr.
- yjftsjthsd-h 9y agoI disagree when the medium is text; it's harder without tone to hear.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- Stratoscope 9y agoYou have a point there. It is definitely harder to hear tone in text. But does that mean one should always put in a </s> tag? It may ruin the joke. As an example, this was one (or two) of my highest-voted HN comments ever: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8690893 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8690893 If I'd added a '/s' tag to those comments, it would have spoiled it, wouldn't it? Part of what made it funny was that I played it straight, and people believed I was sincere almost to the end - or beyond. But now I fear I have led us far off topic. Back to our regularly scheduled discussion of Facebook, watchful defender of our privacy.
- Applejinx 9y agoAnd the funniest part is, you're essentially describing jitter, which is timing differences between successfully and accurately reconstructed bits, and jitter can really wreck audio quality. So you only think you're being sarcastic, while on a higher level you're alluding to a deeper understanding of known audio playback issues that are quite real and legitimate :)
- Stratoscope 9y agoSo the joke was on me all along... Now that's funny.
- kolpa 9y agoSarcasm doesn't work in short text. It just causes confusion and adds nothing, since it just relies on the reader to decided whether the utterance means its face value or opposite.
- noobermin 9y agoI think Poe's law isn't that absolute. Given HN style, I could tell his post was sarcastic.
- Jd 9y agoAmong other things it's virtually a HN rule at this point that the top voted post is critical. A purely positive post is a clear red flag and indicates sarcasm or some other snark.
- killjoywashere 9y agoI have never been prouder of a negative 4 votes. I will carry them with pride.