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>Is Discord PR active in this thread?

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>I was joking

This might be a good opportunity to read up again on Poe's law[0]. It pretty much always applies when one tries to make jokes like this on the web.

Sarcasm and irony only work as intended when talking with people who know you personally or with people who assume they know your viewpoints. If people don't have reason to believe they know your viewpoint, they hear your sarcasm as literal (and frequently think poorly of you, as a result).

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law




Poe's law is hot garbage though. If someone misses context because they're not privy to sarcasm, that isn't automatically the speaker's fault.


Sarcasm doesn’t work with text based medium.

Is this sarcasm?


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I think I understood completely but you are wrong. Sarcasm depends on “how” not “what” is being communicated.


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You'll hear better if you move over here.


I don't see how moving to Appleland in Delltopia would affect my hearing but I'll take your word for it.




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