Tell HN: Web Standard for Sarcasm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=819290In the past, bloggers/trolls/users who are being sarcastic had 4 options:
1. no indication of sarcasm
result: at least one reader thinks they are serious and replies with some nonsense response wasting his and other readers' time
2. <sarcasm /> tag
result: super dorky, too verbose
3. sw
result: no one knows what this means (see #1)
4. ps: i was being sarcastic
result: you are also a loser
THE NEW WEB STANDARD FOR SARCASM:
A committee of supernerds convened the other day and decided the new standard is to only capitalize the second letter of the sarcastic word:
for example:
Joe: I configurated it yesterday.
Bob: Configurated? Don't you mean configured?
Joe: sOrry!