A few examples include s*x questions on askreddit, “this” comments, nolife powermods, jokes being more frequent than actual answers

        • Yulia
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          201 year ago

          I don’t agree, /s is immensely useful for neurodivergent people, some of which cannot recognize sarcasm at all.

          Also, really often something that is “obvious sarcasm” for you is a genuinely held belief by someone online. Nothing is too ridiculous for the internet

          • @WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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            -11 year ago

            Maybe internet forums aren’t the best place for people that can’t recognize context.

                • @wildeaboutoskar@beehaw.org
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                  11 year ago

                  No but they’re here (and we should be being as inclusive as possible if we want Lemmy to be successful), so it makes no sense to shut the doors on them just because a couple of people don’t like seeing /s .

            • @richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one
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              01 year ago

              Just because you don’t care about certain groups of people who are not actively damaging for the world, that doesn’t mean that they should be excluded from here.

        • @Syringe@lemmy.ml
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          71 year ago

          Sadly, I understand your point, but feel that I need to remind you of Poe’s Law. I think the /s is required because shit is all too real

      • @Feathercrown@lemmy.world
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        31 year ago

        I was going to post that you’re lucky you included the /s, but I just realized we don’t have karma so it doesn’t matter anyways. Such a nice feeling…

        • @WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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          -11 year ago

          Fuck that /s If you’re unable to grasp context without it then just move on to a different discussion.

    • @sociablefish@lemm.eeOP
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      1 year ago

      karma (or upvotes-downvotes aka simple karma) shouldn’t be a reason to disallow someone from using a lemmy community

      • Yote.zip
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        111 year ago

        I don’t know what form of karma Wander meant, but for me the “global karma” numbers are the worst part of reddit. People constantly posting stupid things or self-censoring to try to make number go up.

      • @deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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        91 year ago

        Requiring minimum positive karma is stupid when it can be gamed so easily.

        Someone with very negative karma is likely a troll.

    • Yulia
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      41 year ago

      Is there even a total karma counter anywhere at all?

      • @bug@lemmy.one
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        41 year ago

        Not on Lemmy but there is on kbin (it’s called “reputation”, I think). I’m hoping it doesn’t get implemented here, but I guess we can see if it negatively affects kbin content as we’ve got a direct comparison.

      • It becomes an issue if you imagine people on social media do what they do for karma in the same way people in real life do what they do for money.

        In other words, if you have a deficient or extremely narrow theory of mind, you will think karna is the cause of everything