O'Dorkio hasn't smelled a rat yet

[franksolich]

http://www.discussionist.com/101410393

Oh my.

Right Wing Roy (4 posts)    Sat May 31, 2014, 11:57 AM

Having Suffered The Humiliation of Being Banned

Of course I am aware of Poe's Law which means that, in this modern age (or perhaps any age) if one attempts to write satire there must be an extra effort made to make sure......to get through, as it were...... and even then, there is a fair chance that not everyone will see the joke.
 
Earlier today I become a victim of this terrible law (Poe's Law) and thus, was temporarily exiled from this forum. Questions were raised about whether I had produced a satire or if it should be taken seriously. Most people, apparently, thought that what I had written was an honest expression of personal unpleasantness.
 
Painful as it was to suffer an (admittedly) temporary ban, it was made somewhat less painful by knowing that I might, if I were to improve my behavior, be unbanned in the near future.
 
Not that I'm comparing myself to Jonathon Swift, but I wonder how Swift's A Modest Proposal would be taken by a jury here. I got at least two "Leave It Alone" votes. I wonder how many "leave it alones" A Modest Proposal would have received. I'm thinking that Dean Swift probably would have suffered a worse fate than I and been exiled for life from Discussionist for recommending cannibalism as a cure for overpopulation. Unquestionably, at least one of jury/reviewers would speculate (one may surmise) that Swift may actually have been attempting satire but point out it that it was clumsily done.
 
Anyway, too bad. I give up.

Mr_Scorpio (573 posts)   Sat May 31, 2014, 12:02 PM

4. It's much safer using the sarcasm smilie than being sorry.

[SVPete]

Poe's Law? Is that something "real" (or satire?)? Yeah, there's a reason I frequently use [Sarcasm] Sarcasm tags [/Sarcasm]. My sense of humor must twist the wrong way or something, as many times it's conservatives who take literally sarcasm I post without tags.

[GOBUCKS]

I'd be embarrassed to speak to or be a member of a group that needs that stupid sarcasm thing.

[SVPete]

I'd be embarrassed to speak to or be a member of a group that needs that stupid sarcasm thing.

Mehhhh ... I'm just used to it (been on Internet discussion forums since 1997). Reeeeeallyyyyy well done sarcasms (not saying mine always are) are likely to be misunderstood by people who don't know the one posting it or who read hastily sometimes get fooled. I find using Sarcasm "tags" is a lot less hassle than explaining what I meant to some one who is immoderately POed and whose adrenaline is flowing (BTDT Got a Drawer Full of T-Shirts). Sarcasm "tags" also take away a gotcha! straw man from liberals/Progressives who play dumb take obvious sarcasm literally. Got a couple of those T-Shirts, too.

On the other hand, sometimes ...  ...

[GOBUCKS]

Mehhhh ... I'm just used to it (been on Internet discussion forums since 1997). Reeeeeallyyyyy well done sarcasms (not saying mine always are) are likely to be misunderstood by people who don't know the one posting it or who read hastily sometimes get fooled. I find using Sarcasm "tags" is a lot less hassle than explaining what I meant to some one who is immoderately POed and whose adrenaline is flowing (BTDT Got a Drawer Full of T-Shirts). Sarcasm "tags" also take away a gotcha! straw man from liberals/Progressives who play dumb take obvious sarcasm literally. Got a couple of those T-Shirts, too.

On the other hand, sometimes ...  ...

If a story is well done, why ruin it for normal people by explaining it to the pinheads?

One thing more irritating than that stupid sarcasm thing is when it isn't used, and some moron pipes up to proudly announce "Sarcasm!"

[98ZJUSMC]

Poe's Law? Is that something "real" (or satire?)?

No idea.  Never heard of it.

[Big Dog]

Right Wing Roy (4 posts)    Sat May 31, 2014, 11:57 AM

Having Suffered The Humiliation of Being Banned

Of course I am aware of Poe's Law which means that, in this modern age (or perhaps any age) if one attempts to write satire there must be an extra effort made to make sure......to get through, as it were...... and even then, there is a fair chance that not everyone will see the joke.

Mr_Scorpio (573 posts)   Sat May 31, 2014, 12:02 PM

4. It's much safer using the sarcasm smilie than being sorry. 

Hey, pineapple head.

Satire =/= sarcasm.

Satire is a literary style in which vices, follies, or shortcomings are held up for ridicule. Mark Twain was a great satirist; Steven Colbert is a piece of satiric shit on Mark Twain's bootheel.

Sarcasm is a bitter or cutting tone of voice or choice of words, which some people mistake for a type of sense of humor.

Got it, you pineapple headed bitch?*


*Neither satire nor sarcasm, just calling you a pineapple-headed bitch