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I recommend all the downvoters to look up "/s".
by ganafagol 6y ago
I recommend all the downvoters to look up "/s".
- andybak 6y agoMaybe it's the sarcastic inverted interpretation that is being downvoted?
- zeepzeep 6y agoI downvoted because I hate the use of /s
- 1000mA 6y agoI just downvoted your life because I don't like it.
- ganafagol 6y agoHow would you recommend to indicate sarcasm in the absence of nonverbal cues which a written medium necessarily entails?
- BenjiWiebe 6y agoMy guess would be that they dislike sarcasm in general.
- richrichardsson 6y agoOr perhaps that the comment adds nothing to the conversation?
- hutzlibu 6y agoI would disagree. I remember for example how the discussion was about how the various pharma companies make lots of private money with the vaccines, but did receive generous government funding - and how the comment, also here on HN was: whatever, as long as the pandemie stops. And we are talking about a Corona app here. So I think the sarcarsm was valid ... but probably not the whole discussion about