One of my most hated things in the dying days of Reddit is people having to put the /s because of all the mass down voting from users that didn’t get a post was a joke.

When I came here it seemed that wasn’t the case but I’ve noticed over the last month a lot of users using it or having -28 points for an off the cuff comment.

I might be just be a bit too bothered by the need to use it.

  • A_A@lemmy.world
    251·
    5 months ago

    Here you are addressing people from all over the world : they have different cultures, backgrounds, perspectives … and some of us didn’t have time to take our first coffee before reading your writings !
    So, be indulgent and take this smallest of efforts to add this "/s” please. I for one will be thankful 😌

  • blargerer@kbin.social
    242·
    5 months ago

    /s is a very old internet thing, not a reddit thing. It can be hard to discern jokes on the internet because we don’t know you and we can’t hear your tone.

  • LanternEverywhere@kbin.social
    233·
    5 months ago

    THE /S IS ALWAYS NECESSARY

    I don’t know how anyone could live through the last decade and not see how important it is to denote when you’re being sarcastic. “It ruins the joke” is preferable over it ruins society. Without the S idiots will read what you wrote and think there’s people out there who actually support their idiotic ideas

        • finthechat@kbin.social
          3·
          5 months ago

          On Kbin, in addition to up and downvotes, there is the Boost option, as seen in the picture.

          If you are looking at these comment threads on Kbin/Mbin, when a comment/post is ‘boosted,’ it is automatically moved up higher in the thread, similarly to if it had been upvoted a lot.

          Lemmy does not have Boosts, and so neither do any of the Lemmy clients on desktop/mobile.

          Lastly, on Kbin you can look at the ‘Activity’ on a post which lets you see who upvoted, who downvoted, and who Boosted, which is what is shown in the picture.

          I’m calling this guy out for being insecure and Boosting his own opinion to the top for visibility, despite the fact that he’s just parroting an already popular opinion in this thread.

          Edit: also lol, he unboosted his post at the time of me writing this comment. But the picture captures the original tomfoolery. Also I checked his profile and that guy regularly Boosts his own comments, but I bet he removed a bunch of those by now too.

          • LanternEverywhere@kbin.social
            1·
            5 months ago

            Dude you’re grasping at straws. I’m sure you think you’re a genius, but you’re not. You’re wrong about this, but nothing anyone says could ever convince you if it.

  • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
    102·
    5 months ago

    Tone indicators like /s and even smilies are great for text-based communication. It is extremely easy to misinterpret intent in text as there are no body language or auditory signals to provide context. As someone else stated already, use of tone indicators is good communication, making certain that one’s intent is clearly defined. This is especially helpful for ESL and neurodivergent people who may have increased challenges in ascertaining implicit meaning in a statement or joke.

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
    7·
    5 months ago

    For every completely unhinged and stupid statement, there surely is someone who believes it.

    Now, you see, if we didn’t put /s behind these posts, it would be impossible to tell whether we’re joking, or whether whoever writes the comment is actually that stupid. That’s just how it is on the internet.

  • jwelch55@lemmy.world
    4·
    5 months ago

    I don’t want to read shitty opinions, whether they’re real or ‘sarcastic’. If you write a shitty right-wing opinion, and suffix it with a /s, it still reads as a shitty right-wing opinion.

    • Destide@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      21·
      5 months ago

      Not angry, as commented people have raised good points for it’s use then the thread seems to have been nuked and so convo stopped which is a shame.

  • norimee@lemmy.world
    2·
    19 days ago

    Adding the /s is also about accessibility and inclusion since written sarcasm is much harder to read and especially difficult for neurodiverse people.

    I can imagine that the percentage of ND reddit and lemmy user are higher than in the general population.

    So by refusing to use /s you are actually cutting a big part of lemmy users out of the conversation.

      • norimee@lemmy.world
        1·
        19 days ago

        Sorry, I didn’t see this post is 4 months old. I don’t know why it showed up in my feed…

        Anyways, good on you to take this information into account and changing things.

        • Destide@feddit.ukOPEnglish
          1·
          19 days ago

          I don’t think there’s anything wrong with posting on an older thread, your comment had good info

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
    42·
    5 months ago

    Idk I sometimes I write a comment thinking no one would take it seriously, but I read it and it’s something a troll would try to put through as genuine. Lemmy is overall left leaning and a bit of a hivemind but has diverse perspectives and passionate voting so I need to put the s in those cases to be clear.

    In real life you set sarcasm with the tone of voice. The s marker is the prompt to read the comment back again in that voice.

  • TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world
    1·
    5 months ago

    I don’t realize I’m being sarcastic until someone is offended. And then I tell them that I just figured out I was being sarcastic and they should have known before I knew. So now I preemptively put a /s at the end of every comment.

    Edit: I forgot this /s

  • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    Downvote me all you want, but for the life of me, I never understood what this meant. Even when reading your post, I’m still confused about it.

    And don’t get me started on all the other “letters that succeed a slash” that I have no idea what they mean.

    I’m basically f***ing stupid.