Conquer Club

So... what do you think? Does sarcasm come through on here, or should we all just make completely bland and unentertaining posts?

(... of course there's absolutely NO middle ground here.)

*snicker*.... oh, and that was made in my assholish tone, which i just learned permeates all my posts...-0
p.s.-notice the sweet brown tone of that word?

sigh. I get yelled at by an asshole for being too sarcastic on here, and now I'm being accused of the opposite. Too funny.

Wicked.... who accused you of anything?

I would not do that! Not to someone with an Avatar as hot as yours!

If you sometimes are sarcastic... then you shouldn't vote "No".
Unless of course your vote was sarcastic too.
Hmmm... maybe you have a point....

Sorry can't tell ya or he'd shoot me.

wicked wrote:Sorry can't tell ya or he'd shoot me.

Tread softly for you tread upon my dreams.

define sarcasm?


(probably should insert a little funny emoticon here to ensure that the sarcasm comes through)

No love for the Mods?

Robinette wrote:define sarcasm?


(probably should insert a little funny emoticon here to ensure that the sarcasm comes through)

I Love it!

... and I got it even without the tiny little font comment/disclaimer.

With all the new and improved forum features --plus that new car smell-- it's unfortunate
that a sarcasm font was not installed too.

I would like an emoticon that shows me sticking my foot up someones arse when they don't realize I'm being sarcastic.

happy2seeyou wrote:I would like an emoticon that shows me sticking my foot up someones arse when they don't realize I'm being sarcastic.

Or you can just get people to imagine it. Especially if it was clapper's arse. That would bring a whole new set of players to CC.

j/k

The simple answer is that traditional text based messaging systems including text based forums lack the necessary non verbal communication channels that make sarcasm work. This is not to say that you can’t do sarcasm in text based forums, but rather it is exceptionally more difficult to do using text alone.

Now was I being sarcastic in the above paragraph? You can’t tell; there are no non verbal clues at all to go with. You don’t hear the tone of my voice, you can’t see my facial expressions, and you can’t even see any possible hand gestures. (And a good thing at that I should point out … you would need a wide screen monitor just to read this.)

Since the text is raw and unfiltered with non verbal signals it becomes difficult to do unless you have a very good command of the language, perhaps at a level to Winston Churchill. Otherwise, you have a good chance of falling flat in your sarcasm. I without Microsoft Word I have a good chance at misspelling it.

I see a lot of people don't even like to vote sarcastically.

tzor... I like your 'simple' answer... very succinct

i think based on the way a convo is going, you can recognize sarcasm

Yes... but not very well.

Yeah, right.

happy2seeyou wrote:I would like an emoticon that shows me sticking my foot up someones arse when they don't realize I'm being sarcastic.

ha!!! happy, when did you get a sense of humor, much less the ability to be be sarcastic? that was pretty damn funny! thanks for the giggle...-0

+ +

I fart in your general direction

I'm never sarcastic

owenshooter wrote:

happy2seeyou wrote:I would like an emoticon that shows me sticking my foot up someones arse when they don't realize I'm being sarcastic.

ha!!! happy, when did you get a sense of humor, much less the ability to be be sarcastic? that was pretty damn funny! thanks for the giggle...-0

I have my moments.

You have to accompany your posts with a lot of smilies to show you're being sarcastic.


Like this:

tzor wrote:The simple answer is that traditional text based messaging systems including text based forums lack the necessary non verbal communication channels that make sarcasm work. This is not to say that you can’t do sarcasm in text based forums, but rather it is exceptionally more difficult to do using text alone.

Now was I being sarcastic in the above paragraph? You can’t tell; there are no non verbal clues at all to go with. You don’t hear the tone of my voice, you can’t see my facial expressions, and you can’t even see any possible hand gestures. (And a good thing at that I should point out … you would need a wide screen monitor just to read this.)

Since the text is raw and unfiltered with non verbal signals it becomes difficult to do unless you have a very good command of the language, perhaps at a level to Winston Churchill. Otherwise, you have a good chance of falling flat in your sarcasm. I without Microsoft Word I have a good chance at misspelling it.

good read i hear

tzor wrote:The simple answer is that traditional text based messaging systems including text based forums lack the necessary non verbal communication channels that make sarcasm work. This is not to say that you can’t do sarcasm in text based forums, but rather it is exceptionally more difficult to do using text alone.

Now was I being sarcastic in the above paragraph? You can’t tell; there are no non verbal clues at all to go with.

Obviously you think only non verbal clues work here.

That's not true. You can convey things like sarcasm quite well in a text-based medium, you just have to try a little harder. Obviously not everyone is going to get it, but then again not everyone gets it it in real life either.

I can quote a number of posts that quite clearly are sarcastic in nature if you're any good at reading.