Why would you start a joke post with “this is going to sound really stupid”?
Comment on The clueless people are out there among us
sowitzer@lemm.ee 3 weeks 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.
TheV2@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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…
trashboat@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Damn Poe’s Law
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I feel like it should be more like “Poe’s sometimes true thing” because satire does indeed still exist.
ClamDrinker@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.