[JackOfAllTrades]

Once I got into Twitter, I set up a different account (under my real name) than that found in my profile. I follow some of our denizens and team members.

I mainly follow people doing interesting stuff, like DarenR said, and some news-type people, and see it much like supersloth. It's made me want to go to conferences to actually meet some of these folks.

[supersloth]

and also, just to reiterate: if you don't like it, or don't see a point, or your needs are being met elsewhere: don't use it! simple! and you don't need to tell everyone you don't use it either. everyone can just keep on not using things they don't use.

last night i did not eat a hamburger for dinner. would you guys like to know all of the things i did not know and am not currently doing? it's a truly incredible list.

[depricated]

supersloth, on 09 May 2014 - 11:54 AM, said:

and also, just to reiterate: if you don't like it, or don't see a point, or your needs are being met elsewhere: don't use it! simple! and you don't need to tell everyone you don't use it either. everyone can just keep on not using things they don't use.

last night i did not eat a hamburger for dinner. would you guys like to know all of the things i did not know and am not currently doing? it's a truly incredible list.

doesn't parallel - if we were discussing hamburgers and everyone was like "man I love hamburgers" and you didn't, it wouldn't be wrong for you to jump in and be like "why do you think it's ok to kill animals just so you can chew on their carcasses?!" Ok maybe that would, but the point of a discussion should be to hear both sides.

For one, I'm not set on anything. With compelling evidence [edit: or arguments] my view can be changed in any direction, on any topic - gaming, religion, music, code. Ok maybe not music, that's way too subjective - but maybe individual artists. I'll jump into any discussion because there's always something new to take away from it.

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[Atli]

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would you guys like to know all of the things i did not know and am not currently doing?

Nope. That's one of the reasons I stay away from Facebook. Information overflow. I don't need to know what everybody I've ever met in my life is having for each and every meal, and what they are feeling about it every moment of the experience.

[supersloth]

what is even the point of yelp? can someone even explain to me why to use it?

[no2pencil]

Yelp is for n3wb5

[modi123_1]

Atli, on 09 May 2014 - 12:49 PM, said:

We really need to define some sort of irony/sarcasm/good-humour font />/>/>

Some guy tried that.



... and failed.

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The rise of the SarcMark – oh, how brilliant
Great news, says Tom Meltzer. There's a new punctuation mark for sarcasm
Tuesday 19 January 2010

he real breakthrough of ­Sarcasm, Inc is the realisation that, ­despite having used sarcasm and irony in the written word for hundreds of years, humans are simply too stupid to consistently recognise when someone has said the ­opposite of what they mean. The SarcMark solves that problem, and you can download it as a font for the reasonable price of $1.99 (£1.20). Our prayers are answered.

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The Rise and Fall of the Infamous SarcMark
09.24.13
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A scant month after the Saks had sent out their first press releases, the mock-revolutionary website of the “Open Sarcasm” movement appeared, calling for the SarcMark to be blacklisted in favor of the tried and tested inverted exclamation mark, or temherte slaq. Affecting a militant stance against the “greedy capitalists of Sarcasm, Inc.,” the site declared:

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A spectre is haunting the internet—the spectre of Open Sarcasm.

Of late, certain capitalist forces have brought forth onto the internet the idea that sarcasmists everywhere must license and download their proprietary new “punctuation”—called the “SarcMark”®—in order to clarify sarcasm in their writing.

A growing chorus of voices has joined together to decry this idea. It is high time that Open Sarcasmists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Open Sarcasm with a manifesto of the punctuation itself. [...]

SARCASMISTS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!

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Unfortunately for the Saks, this media bonanza gave the lie to the old maxim that no news is bad news: it was difficult to find anything but bad news about the SarcMark, and needless to say, the legally unsinkable symbol was nevertheless holed below the waterline almost as soon as it was launched.

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[depricated]

And making fun of Amy's Baking Company

[JackOfAllTrades]

[astonecipher]

depricated, on 09 May 2014 - 02:39 PM, said:

And making fun of Amy's Baking Company

Careful, she'll tell her cat to kill you over that.

[supersloth]

but i clearly get the same info to fulfill my needs from other sources why does yelp even exist when it's so useless!?!?!!/

[no2pencil]

modi123_1, on 09 May 2014 - 02:37 PM, said:

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[Bort]

I've used Twitter once. I sent a twit to a politician. She is the shadow minister for women and equalities here in the UK and, during the last budget speech, kept making comments about women being let down by the government, and how women were not getting anything out of this year's budget, and stuff along those lines.

So, out of a mixture of curiosity and boredom, I signed up to Twitter and sent her a twit asking her where she represents the equality part of her job, since everything she was saying was about women, not equality. She neglected to reply.

[BenignDesign]

depricated, on 09 May 2014 - 02:03 PM, said:

For one, I'm not set on anything. With compelling evidence [edit: or arguments] my view can be changed in any direction

So... you are expecting us to fight so vehemently in favor of Twitter usage so as to sway your opinion and fill you with an inexplicable need to join the masses in the Twitterverse?

Sorry, buddy. There isn't a damned thing you have to say that I want to hear so badly I'd exert that much effort. Nor is there anything I want to say that's so important I would waste that kind of time just so you could read my 140 character nuggets of brilliance.

Either you want to do it or you don't. It sounds to me like you want to do it, but you don't want to admit it. So you're looking for something to blame it on. "You know, I used to be far too pretentious for social networking, but then the awesome coders over at DIC told me about the plethora of cat pictures and soft core porn I could find if I just followed the right people, and now look at me! Here I am - a Twitter-addicted virtual playboy with a wholly fulfilled cute and fuzzy critter fetish! But soft! What posts through social media breaks? It is the east, and Twitter is the sun!"

[depricated]

So it's gone from me wanting to needlessly troll it simply because I don't like it, to me dying to have a reason to use it because I want to be like...what, you? I'll pass, there are better role models on Reality TV.

I'm just not a close-minded twit who makes up their mind one way or the other and never revisits the conclusion. Nothing here has convinced me that I was wrong in my assessment. I don't expect anyone to argue vehemently, unless they're ridiculously passionate about it for some reason. Or does every discussion break down to an argument which requires vehemence, in your mind? I'm far too chill for that, easier to walk away from a person or a discussion and let the other party stew like a toad in a pot til their little head explodes over it than to let that kind of attitude harsh my mellow.

Funny that it's actually being questioned why someone would expect a discussion in a discussion forum.