Wikipedia:Sarcasm is really helpful
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“ | Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. | ” |
— Fyodor Dostoevsky |
When dealing with a particularly
Sarcasm is especially useful in controversial debates, the more controversial the better, where a sarcastic comment often has the effect of calming the situation. Don't worry about offending people; simply appending a smiley
] on the end of their comment. I mean, everyone knows what that means nowadays—think of all the time that you'll save!Despite the use of the above measures and your inherent, undeniable cleverness, your sarcastic remarks may still be unrecognized or unappreciated by their target audience. This should be interpreted as immediate confirmation of your superior intellect and wit, as well as a corresponding deficiency of those qualities in your audience; you should never hesitate to emphasize this, as it will enable further discussion to proceed productively. It also allows the discussion to stray away from well-known contentious issues towards the beautiful landscapes of hermeneutical disputes on the possible or indisputable subjective and objective meanings of the semantical structures used in the various contributions to the debate.
In rare cases, users have been
While one could, of course, employ sarcasm from one's
See also
- Wikipedia:Advice for hotheads
- Irony
- Irony mark
External links
- Policy against sarcasm: A policy proposal on Wikipedia to forbid sarcasm (no, seriously!).
- Wikipedia bans sarcasm: an UnNews story about the above.