Yeah. It always strikes me as bizarre how many people online see something that would only be satire in a sane world and completely assume it’s serious. They have no doubts. Never occurred to them it might be a joke…
Comment on The clueless people are out there among us
sowitzer@lemm.ee 16 hours ago
I know it’s difficult to tell online, but I read that as a joke post. Not serious. But it’s better for others to make fun of others for being clueless I guess.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
trashboat@midwest.social 15 hours ago
Damn Poe’s Law
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I feel like it should be more like “Poe’s sometimes true thing” because satire does indeed still exist.
ClamDrinker@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
People making assumptions is the issue.
There’s assumptions involved in detecting satire from just text as well. You would just have a Reverse Poe’s law where “any extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for satire of those views without clear indicator of the author’s intent”.
Normally when people say things we (justifiably) assume that to be what they mean, which is why satire works much better in person because intonation can make the satire explicit without changing the words or saying it out loud.
TheV2@programming.dev 3 hours ago
Why would you start a joke post with “this is going to sound really stupid”?