Poe’s Law is that you can’t be sarcastic or over-the-top on the internet without clearly signaling because there’s no opinion so stupid it doesn’t have adherents.
She said she went to the store to buy salad dressing, and it ended up taking her twenty minutes to choose one bottle from an aisle full of different brands.
When she got home she realized that she could have made salad dressing at home in five minutes.
When shortcuts take longer than the thing they are supposed to replace, they become useless.
It’s a joke, we get it. But it still means: “not so many - just more than 5, that’s why I added the /j”.
We know exactly what you meant: that most entertainment comes from the US. Esp. all us (slightly older) non-Americans feel it. But this trend has been in decline in recent years/decades. You made an outdated joke.
Can’t someone make a stupid (and clearly declared) joke without people lecturing them about obvious stuff? 😫
Poe’s Law is that you can’t be sarcastic or over-the-top on the internet without clearly signaling because there’s no opinion so stupid it doesn’t have adherents.
That’s why I added the tone-tag
/jWelcome to the interwebs.
I’ve seen “/s” and never saw “/j” before.
/sstands for "sarcastic,/jfor joking. Many people use/sfor jokes, which, always bugs me a bit, since there’s a difference.Here’s the masterlist
This reminds me of something Gail Collins wrote.
She said she went to the store to buy salad dressing, and it ended up taking her twenty minutes to choose one bottle from an aisle full of different brands.
When she got home she realized that she could have made salad dressing at home in five minutes.
When shortcuts take longer than the thing they are supposed to replace, they become useless.
I don’t really see how this is comparable.
/sand/jis decremental to that cause./shas seen wider adoption, why not the rest of the tone-tags set?It takes less time to write something like “reference” or “joking” than it does to try and memorize the list.
You don’t need to memorize the full list. Most of the tags make mnemonic sense.
What did you think the “/j” meant?
It’s a joke, we get it. But it still means: “not so many - just more than 5, that’s why I added the /j”.
We know exactly what you meant: that most entertainment comes from the US. Esp. all us (slightly older) non-Americans feel it. But this trend has been in decline in recent years/decades. You made an outdated joke.
One person didn’t. I’m not a movie buff but I still have a feeling that HollyWood has a cultural quasi-monopoly.