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Re:Awesome but Useless by Swizec on Tuesday January 03, 2012 @10:39AM (#3419947)
That's good - I guess with startup people these days it's getting hard to distinguish charicature from reality ... not sure that's a good thing.
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Re:Awesome but Useless by bg182 on Tuesday January 03, 2012 @11:08AM (#3420072)
No kidding. From the responses I'm definitely going to have to tone down my british sarcasm in the future.
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Re:Awesome but Useless by robocat on Tuesday January 03, 2012 @04:07PM (#3421300)
I think sarcasm can be easily mistaken as trolling, condescension, or stupidity. Personally I avoid it online until I have seen it regularly used and encouraged on a website/forum (also the tells/syntactic-indicators of sarcasm and how obvious you need to make it vary greatly depending upon site community).
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Re:Awesome but Useless by reinhardt on Tuesday January 03, 2012 @08:31PM (#3422272)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poes_law
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