| 1 | So you've been conversing online. You make a quick joke. And suddenly, everybody acts like you are the greatest, meanest {{Jerkass}} ever. You get exiled, your spouse wants a divorce and all your friends leave you. And you know why? [[PoesLaw Because people had taken your joke seriously and felt genuinely offended. And you can't blame them for that. It's pretty easy to mistake jokes for seriousness online.]] |
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| 3 | And to prevent these kinds of misunderstandings, there is Humor Mode. With this, you can mark a text to show that you are, well, just joking. You were not serious at all about what you just wrote. |
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| 5 | Contrast with SincerityMode, when you don't mean a joke, and SarcasmMode. |
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| 7 | Compare and contrast with JustJokingJustification (as in using this doesn't always work). |
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