How Should We Treat Each Other Here?
DanielBMarkham: Humor is a strange duck online.Use the <sarcasm> tags. Explain your jokes. Make sure somebody who isn't paying any attention at all to your comment will recognize it as a joke. Even then you'll probably lose half of the audience.And don't respond when some person misunderstands it. Half the time you'll just dig the hole deeper.I'm still torn with whether to respond or not. If the person replying obviously hasn't read it, or if it is obvious on re-reading my comment that most people would understand it, I don't.But if the person is really confused, I hate to leave somebody wondering. So I am very tempted to reply.It's just -- tough to do.