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I gotta ask: the "laugh" points, are they meant as appreciation or as mockery??
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<blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 6686832" data-attributes="member: 12731"><p>This has been bugging me for a while now.</p><p></p><p>I thought "laugh points" were a good thing, for when you consider a post to be funny, crack a joke or similar, and the "have a XP" really isn't appropriate... </p><p></p><p>(perhaps the post isn't serious enough to merit such an award; probably having two different award mechanisms is simply offered as a nice touch)</p><p></p><p>But.</p><p></p><p>It says </p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.enworld.org/newsimages/laugh.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> CapnZapp laughed at this post</p><p></p><p>Laughed <strong>at</strong>?</p><p></p><p>Am I overly sensitive, or is being <strong>laughed at</strong> something not very nice? Isn't this the equivalent of school-yard bullying?</p><p></p><p>Am I missing some subtlety of the English language here, or is the intent really to provide a double-edged sword, where a laugh point can both mean "hah that was genuinely funny" and "hah I'm laughing at your stupid and clumsy post"?</p><p></p><p>Or is it the fact that the icon <img src="http://www.enworld.org/newsimages/laugh.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> is much more ambivalent than the <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> or the <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> (two smilies that at least I find very straightforward in presenting a genuinely positive emotion)...?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CapnZapp, post: 6686832, member: 12731"] This has been bugging me for a while now. I thought "laugh points" were a good thing, for when you consider a post to be funny, crack a joke or similar, and the "have a XP" really isn't appropriate... (perhaps the post isn't serious enough to merit such an award; probably having two different award mechanisms is simply offered as a nice touch) But. It says [img]http://www.enworld.org/newsimages/laugh.png[/img] CapnZapp laughed at this post Laughed [B]at[/B]? Am I overly sensitive, or is being [B]laughed at[/B] something not very nice? Isn't this the equivalent of school-yard bullying? Am I missing some subtlety of the English language here, or is the intent really to provide a double-edged sword, where a laugh point can both mean "hah that was genuinely funny" and "hah I'm laughing at your stupid and clumsy post"? Or is it the fact that the icon [img]http://www.enworld.org/newsimages/laugh.png[/img] is much more ambivalent than the :) or the :D (two smilies that at least I find very straightforward in presenting a genuinely positive emotion)...? [/QUOTE]
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I gotta ask: the "laugh" points, are they meant as appreciation or as mockery??
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