You joke, but it is sorely needed, because people simply don’t understand sarcasm very well on the web these days. Personally I think it should be considered a

You joke, but it is sorely needed, because people simply don’t understand sarcasm very well on the web these days. Personally I think it should be considered a sort of disability, and having these kind of annotations should be a requirement if a website wants to be ADA compliant. In addition, having non-joke annotations helps people identify when a person is being dead serious. Even here on hackernews, Poe’s Law reigns supreme as people struggle to differentiate parody from genuine opinions.