No, there isn't. Tone is inflection in speech and body-language. In text, you might reasonably think it could be inferred, but that doesn't mean it can't be conveyed. And if someone is missing the inference, piling on "evidence of tone" phrases could be misinterpreted as "more proof of conviction".
Use /s. If you get downvoted because you didn't, that's on you.
Or they're neurodivergent. Or they're fucking nazis trying to gaslight new recruits, claiming that the OP isn't actually being sarcastic.
Yeah, but the assholes will think you agree with them, which bolsters them. It's much more fun to write out something they agree with to a T, and then add the /s tag. Completely deflating, utter devastation.
Sarcasm tag exists, it should be used. If you're getting downvoted because you didn't use the tag... good. We don't need lemmy to breed nazis/assholes
The tag does two things. One, for people like me (ND ASD) the tag allows us to actually understand what you're trying to say. Kind of a dick move to exclude people from the conversation. Two, and far more important, it's no longer a question if you're being sarcastic. That doesn't sound important until you remember that 4chan literally brought back nazis because they thought ironic nazism was hilarious. And then all the closeted nazis used that to say "none of those people are being ironic, they all mean what they're saying" to new, properly primed recruits.
Giving money to bigots saying bigoted things doesn't mean the bigots didn't mean the things they said. It means they got paid for being bigots.
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