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Brilliant. Reading the comments I cannot help but think of Poe's law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law). Some p
by Paul_S 14y ago
Brilliant. Reading the comments I cannot help but think of Poe's law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law). Some poeple can't tell this is satire despite or maybe because of how ridiculous and over the top it is.
- eli 14y agoIt's also really very difficult to write satire well.
- renegadedev 14y agoHearing about Poe's law for the first time but in my corner of the woods, we blame it on the lack of a sarcasm font
- captaintacos 14y agoA "sarcasm font"... People working on lightweight markup languages should pick up the hint if they're looking for new additions. For instance, in Textile, enclosing a string in between "(:" and ":)" could display the text into sarcasm fonts (notice that I am being dead serious in here - those happy faces around do change things in a paragraph).
- Deezul 14y agoAren't a lot of the comments satire?
- rickmb 14y agoOn some days, most of HN seems like satire to me.