sleepingkirby
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You say that, but there actually is a RFC made about text and tone on the internet (for the uninitiated, the IETF defines/write the RFC's. The RFC are specs for common web protocols and practices. Like, they wrote and codified TLS, which we're using now for HTTPS and networking protocols. They are the very foundation of the internet.). It was old when I was young. And one of them about tone in written word and how things like sarcasm shouldn't be presumed to be conveyed.Maybe we can make it an unofficial rule to signal when we're be sarcastic. Or maybe that'd be too complicated (SARCASM).
I don't know how many people remember it. I do know most don't follow it nor enforce it. And when people talk about how "the internet is horrible", I always think how it's because people didn't read or follow or enforce the RFC's.
Long story short, there already is a rule established. Probably before a good amount of you were born. And it's codified at the same level as the foundations of the internet.