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Posted: **Thu Jan 07, 2010 4:41 pm**

Sarcasm font proposal is
Vetoed

Posted: **Thu Jan 07, 2010 4:42 pm**

Fartsniffage wrote:I hate this whole dumbing down trend that seems to be sweeping the world.

People's precious internet feelings are being hurt.

I shed a tear

Abdju wrote:What if people were just less sarcastic? It that'd be like, so much better if people were just nice to one another without dissing each others views.

So.... you're new to the internet, yes?

Posted: **Thu Jan 07, 2010 4:46 pm**

I think a sarcasm font is what a priest might use when a family he doesn't like brings a child in for a christening.

Oh, yes. Your child is now totally a member of our church, and so completely not going to hell. Piss? No, this is a special extra holy water we worked on just for this occasion.

Posted: **Thu Jan 07, 2010 4:49 pm**

Sarzonia wrote:On another message board I frequent, they have an established protocol for a specific font/colour choice to signify that whatever is being written is intended to be sarcastic.

Considering how hard it sometimes is to tell intent over the Internet (for example, I could come across someone calling Jocabia a douchebag and report it in Moderation without realising that Jocabia and said poster have a history of "insulting" each other in that way and they do so endearingly), having a sarcasm font might be a good idea around here.

The other board I'm on also refers to words that look like they should be sarcastic as "missing [sarcasm] font." They use the colour blue to signify sarcasm. I propose we do the same in NSG.

Having to point out sarcasm kills sarcasm. Let's not dumb things down even more than we already have, hmmm?

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Sarcasm Font Proposal