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I wonder if people realize it's sarcasm. Nope. - Poe's law

• scrollaway 6y ago
  How about scrollaway's law of post quality: if your sarcastic post sounds believable enough for Poe's law, it's a shitty post no matter how it's interpreted.
  • airhead969 6y ago
    Sounds believable to whom? You're assuming an absolutist perspective of inference. Sarcasm's law: without a tell, it doesn't always come across as sarcasm without common sense. The latter is often missing these days, hence Poe's law. internet's law: The average level of common sense, intelligence, sense of humor, benefit-of-the-doubt, and decency decays over time. airhead's law: Quality sarcasm poetically-highlights an insight rather than ejaculates (meaning no. 2) a humorous quip.
  • ergl 6y ago
    In more profane terms: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17733579 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17733579