Exactly right, and what I would add is that this is a Poe's Law thing. I might even offer a corollary to that law, which is that the more unclear a statement i

Exactly right, and what I would add is that this is a Poe's Law thing. I might even offer a corollary to that law, which is that the more unclear a statement is, the more inscrutable a it's intent, the more likely the original author will insist that it was 'obvious' sarcasm.