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Open Sarcasm Fighting Copyrighted Punctuation
pinkushun writes "SarcMark is a copyrighted punctuation mark, that claims 'It's time that sarcasm is treated equally!' Pretty damn cheeky while they're charging for their software, which only inserts their punctuation through a hotkey. Open Sarcasm is destroying SarcMark by advocating a new punctuation mark (not displaying here properly — alt+U0161) as the new open and free sarcasm symbol. Either way, this will be one interesting turnout. With bad unicode support across the web, displaying the characters properly might be an issue. PS Left out sarcastic end sentence as Slashdot doesn't display the U0161 character."
We've come a long way, baby.
... but the thread would probably implode at this point.
Oh, a sarcasm punctuation mark. That's a real useful invention!
The special offtopic character is (not displaying here properly, alt-F4) used when you want to steer the conversation toward a disastrous end, a.k.a. trolling. PS I left out the troll I had prepared for the end of this post because Slashdot doesn't display the alt-F4 character.
Quelle surprise. Does Slashdot display any Unicode characters correctly, apart from English letters and punctuation? I think I saw some madman use the British pound symbol once, but that was Dark Magic and he was burned at the stake.
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I always used the tilde to indicate "moustache" or "backwards 'S' taking a nap"
since those two concepts rarely entered my on-line conversations, I rarely used the tilde.
But, hey! yeah... I could use the tilde to indicate sarcasm! What a ~great~ idea!
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I thought this character is already reserved for Trogdor!!!
It is a careful balance between collecting ad revenue and ignoring the shortcomings of the moderation mechanism.
Only the most modern of management techniques have been used to arrive at this complex and deeply nuanced operating strategy; only here, at the heart of the technical community, can we find an implementation that so perfectly reflects (in the sense of reflection about the opposite axis) the technical nature of its users.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
I don't know if you are being sarcastic, but I don't agree that they are geniuses.
I prefer letting each individual display sarcasm on their screen as they prefer. That's why I enclose my sarcasm in <P> and </P> tags. Aren't those the sarcasm indicators?
I think it should be pointed out that slashcode (http://www.slashcode.com/) is open source, so feel free to submit patches.
And perl is incomprehensible to everyone, so not knowing the language may actually help you.