Personally I think not having karma limits is nice currently! I understand why they were used but grinding karma as a lurker on reddit was frustrating.

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    1 year ago

    Except half the trick to deploying sarcasm is to use tone of voice, which you can’t do in a text-only format. /s is like a shortcut for that. To use a face-to-face example, it’s like saying something sarcastic with a straight face then cracking a smile to reveal you were joking all along.

    Plus we’re on the internet, people have some terrible takes that totally seem like they should be sarcastic but just aren’t.

    I guess I do get it though. /s does take some of the humor out of it, but it seems like more than a worthy tradeoff. People are just so hostile to it.

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      1 year ago

      Telling jokes in a text medium isn’t new and sarcasm is frequently used without hackish writers rushing to reassure everyone that they were only kidding. If you can’t do a sarcasm without an ‘/s’ then just don’t do one.