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If the author wrote, "This is satire," it'd ruin the satire.
by xapata 2y ago
If the author wrote, "This is satire," it'd ruin the satire.
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- sghiassy 2y agoIf you have to explain that it’s a joke, then it wasn’t funny
- sfilmeyer 2y agoWhat's the bar, though? If out of a million people reading a joke, 80% find it funny, 20% find it meh, and one solitary person needs the joke explained to them, I think it's still fair to call it a funny joke. There are multiple comments in this thread missing the satire so it's obvious the percentage is a bit higher than that, but I'd wager the majority of people didn't need the joke explained to them.
- cmcaleer 2y agoTo you.
- mrguyorama 2y agoThis doesn't apply to satire. Your lack of media literacy is not evidence of bad satire.
- sghiassy 2y agoThere’s enough people in this thread saying the same, to prove I’m not an outlier in my interpretation
- mrguyorama 2y agoHN is not a representative sample of normal people and has a long understood inability to recognize satire, or even just particularly strong sarcasm. HN not getting a joke is not evidence of it being a bad joke.
- ryandrake 2y agoI've never seen an online community fail to grasp sarcasm as badly as HN. I deliberately make one out of 50 posts ultra-sarcastic (to the point where no normal person could possibly believe I'd hold whatever view I wrote), and they always, always go straight to -4.
- jmhammond 2y agoComing from a family with several people “on the spectrum,” I want to point out that _some_ people with ASD have trouble with sarcasm. I would also contend that HN, like my workplace (university math department) skews towards folks with ASD. Usual caveats of “when you met one person with autism, you met one person with autism…” etc etc.
- cyanydeez 2y agoAutism is a spectrum disorder and I'd say that spectrum is quite biased around here.
- dotnet00 2y agoHell, even jokes that have been properly marked get downvoted and flagged here.
- j0hnyl 2y agoIt was obviously a joke, and not a bad one.
- banish-m4 2y agoPoe's law. This doesn't seem completely absurd because there are plenty of jerks on planes who don't dim excessively-bright screens much less reduce the volume of crap music.
- TechDebtDevin 2y agoI've flown close to a million miles and can't recall a single time someone played music out of their speakers.