Personally I think not having karma limits is nice currently! I understand why they were used but grinding karma as a lurker on reddit was frustrating.
Personally I think not having karma limits is nice currently! I understand why they were used but grinding karma as a lurker on reddit was frustrating.
Part of the humor in sarcasm is feigned sincerity.
It’s like explaining the joke immediately after telling it. If you have to tell everyone its sarcasm, then you’ve done a bad job at deploying sarcasm.
Except half the trick to deploying sarcasm is to use tone of voice, which you can’t do in a text-only format. /s is like a shortcut for that. To use a face-to-face example, it’s like saying something sarcastic with a straight face then cracking a smile to reveal you were joking all along.
Plus we’re on the internet, people have some terrible takes that totally seem like they should be sarcastic but just aren’t.
I guess I do get it though. /s does take some of the humor out of it, but it seems like more than a worthy tradeoff. People are just so hostile to it.
Telling jokes in a text medium isn’t new and sarcasm is frequently used without hackish writers rushing to reassure everyone that they were only kidding. If you can’t do a sarcasm without an ‘/s’ then just don’t do one.