What is Digg?283 Comments
- bonkeykong, on 02/17/2008, -8/+307Wow, what a great article.
- mostlysane, on 02/17/2008, -5/+156a discussion of sarcasm on digg - this might very well be the 1st recorded thread-implosion in internet history
- Ploosheeta, on 02/17/2008, -9/+159sarcasm
/sarcasm - shakbhaji, on 02/17/2008, -5/+106Thanks for that assessment, it was so enlightening.
- deviouskoopa, on 02/17/2008, -8/+99Whoever submitted this article sure is awesome.
- archer104, on 02/17/2008, -4/+94Oh, look at me! I'm making people happy! I'm the Magical Man, from Happy Land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Laaaaaaaaaaaane! Oh, by the way, I was being sarcastic.
- Brad324, on 02/17/2008, -9/+87This belongs on digg. Really.
- Kugo, on 02/17/2008, -7/+68The psychology of wimps and people with lesser minds. Sarcasm is the outlet when people with superior intelligence have to deal with bleeding idiots all day. This article is written by bleeding idiots. They're the majority but Charles Darwin was right. So they're also a dying species. Thank heavens for that. Otherwise I might have to get sarcastic here.
- PerroLoco, on 02/17/2008, -2/+59Wow! This interweb article will make me change my behavior, forever. Never again will I use sarcasm in personal or business exchanges. I had no idea the damage it could cause to others or to how I'm perceived.
Really. - pathy, on 02/17/2008, -0/+44I'm British. Without sarcasm I am nothing.
- smartazz, on 02/17/2008, -4/+40yeah, like that could happen
- anagoge, on 02/17/2008, -3/+37My head asplode.
- minnymoo, on 02/17/2008, -8/+41o rly?
- geniuslocimusic, on 02/17/2008, -4/+36As an accomplished master of the sarcastic arts, I feel this article discounts the sheer joy I take in the puzzled face of morons that I'm too chicken____ to verbally assault in a more direct manner. I will however, attempt to be more blatant in my contempt.
- ethros, on 02/17/2008, -3/+33I kept reading the woman's name as Rachel Molester
- islingt0ner, on 02/17/2008, -3/+31Amazing, I am sure we will all sleep a little more smugly after reading all that.
- NOFXY, on 02/17/2008, -1/+27if you've watched Idiocracy (the prophetic movie that it is) you'd know that just because you're smart, it doesn't necessarily mean you'll survive. Survival of the fittest, not the smartest. In our case (since obesity is rampant in our society and there's nobody to kill off the weak) the fittest includes anyone who can procreate. Generally the dumbest people who have no sense of birth control have obscene amounts of children, while the "mental elites" often go on having one or no kids, eventually leading to a state where r-tards rule the world. 'tis sad but true.
- GhostyBoy, on 02/17/2008, -2/+25I like the sarcasm test on digg. Make a sarcastic comment, leave out the tag and see how many people get it.
I always like it when sarcastic comments get dugg way up without the tag because it shows the intelligence and humor of the commenter as well as a general consensus of understanding and critical analysis among diggers. - tipexy, on 02/17/2008, -1/+23I use sarcasm when I speak to you, because If I told you what I really think of you, you would cry.
- Imusion, on 02/17/2008, -2/+24I see what you did there.
- Dan137exe, on 02/17/2008, -1/+22Lindsey Nagel: Do I detect a hint of sarcasm?
Professor Frink: Are you kidding? This baby's off the charts!
Comic Book Guy: Oh, a sarcasm detector; that's a REAL useful invention.
*sarcasm detector explodes* - inactive, on 02/17/2008, -5/+25Very insightful.
- DarkDx, on 02/18/2008, -0/+19That's the point. He's obviously trying to publicly rickroll you.
- nomadofthehills, on 02/17/2008, -9/+27I never use sarcasm.
- notque, on 02/17/2008, -7/+25It's completely true. Sarcasm is a crutch in discussions to avoid having to cite evidence, and reason things out.
It's significantly easier to mock something than to argue something rationally. Since most people don't bother to study issues they discuss, it ends up that sarcasm increases.
Maturity would be escaping that, but there are far fewer mature people in the world today because mature people don't buy products. You have to inundate people with objects, and keep them uninformed if you want them to continue to buy products they don't need.
Now I will defend myself against being dugg down by putting a sarcasm tag, and thus someone may actually hear what I am saying.
Or not.
/sarcasm - illspaz, on 02/17/2008, -2/+19wow, i cant believe how positive these comments are. seemed to me to be a somewhat inane, pointlessly retarded article.
oh, i see what you did there... - offwithyourtv, on 02/17/2008, -0/+17I think perhaps saying that people who use sarcasm are covering up for insecurity is a bit of an overgeneralization. Perhaps if you can't speak in any tone beyond sarcasm there might be an issue, but sometimes sarcasm is more appropriate than stating an honest opinion. Sarcasm has its usefulness on occasion.
For example, I taught a student last quarter who would frequently make negative comments just loud enough that she knew I could hear what she said. Calling her out on it and asking her politely to stop disrupting class didn't seem to work, but once I started returning her wisecracks and somewhat embarrassing her, she finally gave it a rest. Being nice didn't work, being genuinely mean might have gotten me fired, but playfully returning her sarcasm got the point across just fine. My class sometimes found my comments amusing, anyway. - notque, on 02/17/2008, -0/+16False choice dilemma, you could choose to not click either.
- TheSmiddy, on 02/17/2008, -3/+19too ***** to swear on an online forum as well it seems...
- Steeple, on 02/17/2008, -2/+17actually i use sarcasm because i feel SUPERIOR, and i don't want to just come out and say it
- HiKevinRose, on 02/17/2008, -3/+17Well said. I felt the exact same thing but couldn't put it into words adequately. I think only people with 130+ IQs should be permitted to breed. It would solve a helluva lot of problems. Everyone else can use protection and raise the excess children of the mentally superior parents.
- Flashman, on 02/17/2008, -3/+17Well duh.
- jonathaneb, on 02/18/2008, -0/+13Don't you mean best?
- roqua, on 02/17/2008, -0/+13For the benefit of the third person listening to the exchange, and the personal satisfaction of making stupid people think..
- PaulOwen, on 02/18/2008, -9/+21Look, Rick Astley in one of his best loved hits "Never Gonna Give You Up":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0 - joshtj, on 02/17/2008, -5/+17Any type of humour is done at someone (or something) elses expense, even if it's your own. That's the nature of it. Analyze what you thought was a good natured joke and you'll be surprised.
- ahuxley, on 02/17/2008, -1/+12As an Australian looking at the BBC and US TV, I feel that the US writers seem about 20 years in the past when it comes to any form of sophistication in scripts. Sarcasm seems to be listed as a real negative in the USA. Do US script writers get a memo saying the all important "20-30" yo fans do not test well with *any* form of adult conversations? Keep it visual? So another generation just sits in front of child like cartoon explosions, violence, drugs, eye candy, alcohol and fast cars?
- Accolade1, on 02/17/2008, -7/+18"Certified wisecrackers may see their snarky remarks as clever diversions, but because the distinction between a joke and an insult can be nebulous, they can easily damage relationships and careers with their one-liners. "
What a nebulous remark. - Velnich, on 02/17/2008, -1/+12That is some rapier wit sir. This thread is better for having your thoughts in it.
- Matt-lars, on 02/17/2008, -1/+12It shows.
- bjornski, on 02/18/2008, -1/+11You've obviously been the target of sarcasm for most of your life. You don't get it at all.
- wastelander, on 02/18/2008, -6/+16Worst attempt at a Rick Roll ever.
- rentmitchum, on 02/17/2008, -1/+11This reminds me of that SNL sketch, like the family that does the slow clap at each other a bunch of times in a row.
- Dalrek, on 02/17/2008, -0/+10Yeah, I'm glad it was put up as well. I said something the other day to someone I'm starting to get to know, and it was taken the wrong way and she's not talking to me now. I couldn't figure it out until I read that then I thought to myself "Ah ***** me."
- HiKevinRose, on 02/17/2008, -0/+10Exactly what I did! :-)
- inactive, on 02/17/2008, -0/+10At someone else's expense -- Actually that applies only to certain types of humor. The types of humor it doesn't fit are puns, which are connection humor, and absurdity, which points out things that break our models of what is real. Neither always involves putting someone else down. But sarcasm and insult do, they are humor with intent to hurt, used as a social tool disguised under the banner of funny. Where they put down someone deserving (someone rude or pompous or a jerk) they work. When they unjustly hurt someone, they are sociopathic.
- HiKevinRose, on 02/17/2008, -1/+11God damn, I don't know which thumb to click...
- notque, on 02/17/2008, -0/+10The fact you ***** up the joke?
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