@SerenaT Bot's still down? Uh oh. Did the update fail?

Um. Why is there a 'pets' tag in the room description? That leads to a 404?

Its a meta tag

?

It might have been a tag once, and might have been removed?

Right. Shouldn't it be removed from the room desc then though?

It could. I'll leave it to the local mods

room topic changed to The Litter Box: General discussion for pets.stackexchange.com. Pet pictures and gifs welcome. Oneboxes are awesome! Please read pets.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2338 for more information about the recent changes in this room's usage; thanks. (no tags)

@Sarov Don't know why that was there in the first place, but it's gone now

@Sarov If you think that it was strange for there to be a random tag description, check out Tavern On the Meta's tags: chat.meta.stackexchange.com/rooms/89/tavern-on-the-meta

@Elmy Thanks! :D

"Be kind and avoid sarcasm" Avoid sarcasm? How do they expect me to live?!

@Sarov: Simple, don't die?

Simple and easy are not synonymous.

More seriously - Some folks don't get sarcasm, and some of it is... potentially mean

I'm a recovering snark, and I've hurt folks back in the day :(

It can be especially hard if you're not a native english speaker and don't understand certain figures of speach or popculture references or (worst of all) slang

Imo it's fine as long as the 'be nice' is held to. If you're consistently nice, then even if you use sarcasm, at best people will interpret it correctly, at worst "Wait what?" "I was being sarcastic" "Oh okay."

@Sarov A lot of the time though, sarcasm isn't nice

or folks say "I was being sarcastic" to excuse something

Oh, sure, yeah. But correlation is not causation. Just because sarcasm can be mean doesn't mean that not-mean sarcasm should be banned.

Imo, anyway.

I have absolutely no problem with sarcasm if it's announced, like "(start sarcasm) Oh, That's how it's done. So easy! Why didn't I get the idea earlier? (end sarcasm)"

You give everyone the chance to understand it as intentioned and you cannot change the meaning afterwards claiming "it was sarcastic"

@Sarov If you know everyone gets it in a casual space, maybe

@Sarov I like "Be nice"

The problem with "Be nice" is it works for nice people

Less nice people... keep trying to find excuses and loopholes and claim they don't understand

Stuff like that

Some people insist on all these things being mandates. And try to find ways around guidelines.

Or just ignore it cause they feel like it