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Creativity / wait nvm
« Last post by Pompmaker2 on March 23, 2024, 09:08:47 AM »
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Off Topic / Re: I found myself, also where did everyone go?
« Last post by V2 on March 23, 2024, 03:51:20 AM »
Unfortunately, due to Poe's Law, it is impossible to know what is satire and what is sincere expression of views.

Poe's law is based on a comment written by Nathan Poe in 2005 on christianforums.com, an Internet forum on Christianity. The message was posted during a debate on creationism, where a previous poster had remarked to another user: "Good thing you included the winky. Otherwise people might think you are serious".[4]
unfortunately due to poe's law we have no way of knowing whether or not this information is satire or not
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Off Topic / Re: I found myself, also where did everyone go?
« Last post by Dr.Block on March 23, 2024, 02:48:32 AM »
Unfortunately, due to Poe's Law, it is impossible to know what is satire and what is sincere expression of views.

Poe's law is based on a comment written by Nathan Poe in 2005 on christianforums.com, an Internet forum on Christianity. The message was posted during a debate on creationism, where a previous poster had remarked to another user: "Good thing you included the winky. Otherwise people might think you are serious".[4]

The reply by Nathan Poe read:[1]

    Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone won't mistake for the genuine article.

The original statement of Poe's law referred specifically to creationism, but it has since been generalized to apply to any kind of fundamentalism or extremism.[3]

Its original conceptualization held that online parodies or sarcasm on religious views are indistinguishable from sincere expressions of religious views.[5] In part, Poe was simply reiterating common advice about the need to clearly mark online sarcasm or parody, otherwise it would be interpreted as the real thing[5] or used by online trolls,[6] extremists, and fundamentalists as sincere expressions of their authors, particularly if they match their own views.[7] Some abuse the law by publishing extremism or defamation without a smiley, and if there is too much criticism towards it, reply that it was only an irony. As early as 1983, Jerry Schwarz, in a post on Usenet, wrote:

    Avoid sarcasm and facetious remarks.

    Without the voice inflection and body language of personal communication these are easily misinterpreted. A sideways smile, :-), has become widely accepted on the net as an indication that "I'm only kidding". If you submit a satiric item without this symbol, no matter how obvious the satire is to you, do not be surprised if people take it seriously.[8]

In 2017, Wired published an article calling it "2017's Most Important Internet Phenomenon", and wrote that "Poe's Law applies to more and more internet interactions." The article gave examples of cases such as 4chan with the usage of the OK gesture as a white power symbol and the Annoying Orange administration where there were deliberate ambiguities over whether something was serious or intended as a parody, where people were using Poe's law as "a refuge" to camouflage beliefs that would otherwise be considered unacceptable.[9] Some treat Poe's law as part of contemporary kitsch culture;[7] another view maintains that Poe's law could lead to nihilism, a situation where nothing matters and everything is a joke.[6]
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Off Topic / Re: I found myself, also where did everyone go?
« Last post by 16-Bit on March 22, 2024, 08:25:41 PM »
SMF is rotting

It's not just the forum, we all are.
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Off Topic / Re: Kalphiter
« Last post by Goth77 on March 22, 2024, 07:49:28 PM »
he goes by the name Queuenard these days
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Off Topic / Kalphiter
« Last post by NanoCap66 on March 22, 2024, 07:19:59 PM »
I have a lot of core memories in blockland with Kalphiter in them. Anyone know what he’s up to? In that Redlyne video on YouTube I saw his name pop up, still playing blockland 14 years later.
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Man watching this video makes me want to throw out a video about Blockland Today, just give an actual summary of what is going on and where everyone went. I've noticed a few Blockland videos showing up showcasing how dead the game is. maybe it's time for another grand ole video lmaoo.

other than that, i'm doing alright. we all still vibing here.
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Alternatively, you could fall down the alt-right pipeline and then end up here.
To be fair, my early days on this forum i was a hardcore "socially liberal, economically conservative, anti-feminist" libertarian.
Then I actually studied economics and political science in university (even under an adamantly conservative "competative-federalism" supporting professor), and came out anarcho-syndicalist communist.
Not trans though, but I do appreciate the occasional they/them for the affirmation of non-restrictive gender performance.
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Off Topic / Re: I found myself, also where did everyone go?
« Last post by Dillpickle on March 22, 2024, 12:15:29 PM »
we out here chillin, always have been
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Off Topic / Re: I found myself, also where did everyone go?
« Last post by Masterlegodude on March 22, 2024, 10:43:00 AM »
SMF is rotting
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