I upvoted both the “don’t use /s” suggestion and your comment. IMO both are important points.
Personally I use /s only when the statement is s likely to be otherwise misunderstood. That goes for Reddit as well.
/s was never meant to be ubiquitous on Reddit. What happened is that new users saw it, didn’t know what it means, asked, and when they were told it expresses sarcasm, they thought it’s mandatory.
Don’t use /s here.
We are adults and can tell sarcasm without training wheels.
I can’t tell sarcasm very well through text, so it might be useful for me
I upvoted both the “don’t use /s” suggestion and your comment. IMO both are important points.
Personally I use /s only when the statement is s likely to be otherwise misunderstood. That goes for Reddit as well.
/s was never meant to be ubiquitous on Reddit. What happened is that new users saw it, didn’t know what it means, asked, and when they were told it expresses sarcasm, they thought it’s mandatory.
Yeah, it’s genuinely useful in some contexts. Sometimes it’s needed. otherwise, yeah whatever.
You do realize, that this statement makes a whole lot of sense if taken sarcastically.
Or is that the point, and I’m proving it by not being able to tell?
It’s a convention on Reddit, so I thinked it’s also the case here. Sorry.
It’s fine. Not all of us write clear sarcasm, and sometimes people say things seriously that we might only say sarcastically