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

      • @[email protected]
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        101 year ago

        I get the objective need for the /s in this particular context, but we absolutely should add “using /s when the sarcasm should be obvious for anyone with basic reading comprehension skills” to the list

        • @[email protected]
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          361 year ago

          As someone who is incredibly tone deaf in written conversation, please don’t get rid of the /s. It really does help

        • 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

            • @[email protected]
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              41 year ago

              Why should we exclude neurodiverse people from a space when it’s easy enough to make it accessible?

                • @[email protected]
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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 .

                • @[email protected]
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                  010 months ago

                  Do you active dislike neurodiverse people or you just prefer to surround you only with people you can relate to?

            • @[email protected]
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              010 months 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.

        • @[email protected]
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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

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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…

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

    • @[email protected]OP
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      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.

      • @[email protected]
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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.

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        61 year ago

        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

    • Yulia
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      41 year ago

      Is there even a total karma counter anywhere at all?

      • @[email protected]
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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.