Hey! I sometimes have a hard time parsing tone over text. It seems to me others do as well, since I’ve seen a bunch of people commenting on the levels of irony on hexbear.

While we’re all supportive of tone clarifiers, we don’t want to use /s because that would turn this instance into Reddit. I sometimes think that sentiment is silly, but I can see where it’s coming from and in general I agree with it.

I would however like to ask that we implement a rule so that the question “is this a bit/are you being sarcastic?” Has to be answered with honesty, if the person asked answers. Like you don’t have to answer, but if you do you have to be honest.

    • Egon [they/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I think what exhausts me is when I ask “is this a bit” and I either get mocked for asking, it’s assumed I’m asking in bad faith or I get a bit answer.
      When one posts “I unironically think we should actually just kill every single english person” and I then ask “are you doing a bit? Sometimes people use unironically ironically” and they then answer “no, not a bit” but it is a bit, I get fucking exhausted.