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I think you should have added a /s tag... some people don't get jokes unless you hit them over the head with it.
by jniedrauer 8y ago
I think you should have added a /s tag... some people don't get jokes unless you hit them over the head with it.
- StavrosK 8y agoI will never stoop so low as to telegraph my own joke.
- wyldfire 8y agoThen you must encounter Poe's Law frequently....?
- StavrosK 8y agoAll the time. After having seen the kinds of things some people will say in earnest, I will never begrudge someone missing my sarcasm.
- thayne 8y agoIn textualform, sarcasm and ignorance look the same. otoh, it can sometime be quite funny to see responses from people that take it seriously...
- dmix 8y agoI've never posted sarcasm online without at lease one person (that guy) who takes it seriously and decides to reply. But I think it's worth it because the people who get it will get it. If a small group doesn't then who cares (if everyone doesn't then you did a bad job constructing a joke).
- labster 8y agoI couldn't agree more. The joke construction was a bit weak though, when you miss a good part of the audience. Add something like, "I mean, could you imagine the chaos it would cause if IE told websites it was really Mozilla?" and you demonstrate mastery of the subject matter, which should be enough to let other experts know you were facetious rather than ignorant. Unless you have timing issues... or need the comedian's plausible deniability.
- shhehebehdh 8y agoI like the original more without your embellishment. The addition sounds like every attempt at follow up humor on reddit.
- labster 8y agoYeah but it's not Reddit, it's HN. You have to know your audience, read the crowd. On Reddit it's 90% sarcasm so there's no fixing it. Here it's the reverse and people take things seriously without a tell. You just have to bury the tell in another joke or it will ruin the funny.
- Dylan16807 8y ago"given that software can't [ridiculous thing no one has ever claimed]" is plenty for a tell.
- Aeolun 8y agoJust the fact that this “fix” exists tells you some people believe differently.
- rujuladanh 8y agoIf you can’t discern the joke, the joke isn’t for you to begin with; so it doesn’t matter.
- StavrosK 8y agoI don't find that as funny, I think making the sarcasm more obvious makes the joke less funny as well. I prefer to take my chances than to go overboard and neuter the joke.
- kowdermeister 8y agoSir, your assessment of this particular joke is excellent. We should start a joke approval committee to avoid further confusion.
- Chris_Chambers 8y ago/s tags are for low IQ redditors.