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Rises in the stock market are caused by Republicans, falls and crashes are always the fault of the Democrats...
Uff people downvoting an obvious ironic remark. I'm worried about the lack of ability to detect irony and sarcasm in comments. To be fair, some people drop this type of comment as a statement, but still...
The "/s" mark is a problem. As a sarcastic, marking your sarcasms doesn't feel right. I think it is another consequence of the karma system, i.e. people put the mark so people don't downvote them for not understanding that we think alike about something. I tell you guys, all of you, just ditch the voting system, don't be a captive of judgment of your ideas!
No it's just a symptom of plain text. Nobody can see your face or hear your inflection to know if you're sarcastic or just stupid.
Well, it may be like this too, now that you mention it. But the voting system remains a factor in the sense it steers subsequent opinions on the desired sarcastic effect. Imagine a comment one first reader reads as stupid and can't figure out the sarcasm, then downvotes; after that, a second reader comes and the previous downvote reassures the "just stupid" comment interpretation. It's probably easy to have a cascading effect from the first votes.
The /s is like a laughing track: It tells the dumb people where to laugh. But I have to admit that it has become hard to differentiate between satire and sarkasm on one side and real news on the other side, especially with anything around Trump.
'/s' far predates karma and upvote systems
You are probably right, but what matters is the effect it has in the voting system.
Maybe the downvoters are Trumpists and don't like their dumb textbook answers being stolen!