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Re:Developers who use spaces make more money than those who ... by dmix on Thursday June 15, 2017 @10:11AM (#14560540)
It's pretty much an unwritten rule that a sarcastic joke on the internet with sufficient exposure will get a response by someone who didn't get it. Using /s really kills the fun (and whole point) of using sarcasm so it's a trade off to accept these comments will happen.

I'm impartial to downvoting as to reply literally doesn't usually add to the conversation, which is generally the point of downvoting. Losing karma shouldn't hurt your feelings.

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Re:Developers who use spaces make more money than those who ... by shangxiao on Thursday June 15, 2017 @10:15AM (#14560578)
Known as Poe's Law [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

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Re:Developers who use spaces make more money than those who ... by hinkley on Thursday June 15, 2017 @12:09PM (#14561671)
I will don't understand why it's called Poe's Law if he said it in 2005. This phenomenon was well documented on Usenet by the early nineties.
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Re:Developers who use spaces make more money than those who ... by sqeaky on Thursday June 15, 2017 @12:22PM (#14561801)
If we called everything that was first described on Usenet as "Usenet's Law" then everything would be Usenet's law, probably even a couple of things in physics.
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Re:Developers who use spaces make more money than those who ... by tripzilch on Friday June 16, 2017 @09:17AM (#14568596)
Also known as Usenet's Law [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14561801

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Re:Developers who use spaces make more money than those who ... by qb45 on Thursday June 15, 2017 @12:31PM (#14561893)
Known as Stigler's law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law_of_eponymy

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Re:Developers who use spaces make more money than those who ... by Dylan16807 on Thursday June 15, 2017 @03:10PM (#14563468)
Poe's Law is when extreme views seem to self-parody. That's different from someone missing the joke on mundane sarcasm.
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Re:Developers who use spaces make more money than those who ... by derekp7 on Thursday June 15, 2017 @11:03AM (#14561036)
Could also be that the reply is also an attempt to play the into the joke (kind of like a vaudeville straight man).
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Re:Developers who use spaces make more money than those who ... by Roodgorf on Thursday June 15, 2017 @10:39AM (#14560786)
Do you mean partial to? As in, you favor downvoting over commenting to point out their mistake? Don't mean to be nitpicky, just genuinely confused if that was a mistake or I'm misunderstanding.
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Re:Developers who use spaces make more money than those who ... by dmix on Thursday June 15, 2017 @10:46AM (#14560868)
I meant that as I'm indifferent to whether or not they get downvoted but I see there could be a justification for doing so.
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Re:Developers who use spaces make more money than those who ... by skinnymuch on Thursday June 15, 2017 @01:26PM (#14562405)
Yeah but we are human. Most people's feeling probably are hurt when their [non-malicious] comments are downvoted. But besides that I mostly agree with what you wrote.
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Re:Developers who use spaces make more money than those who ... by okreallywtf on Thursday June 15, 2017 @12:48PM (#14562045)
Yeah, I guess. If the person didn't catch the sarcasm they probably won't catch why they are being downvoted, at least 1 person has to tell them.
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