blind_assassin wrote...
It's strange that the internet is the only sort of place where these sustained chain of joke responses work but at the same time are the worst possible medium for them since sarcasm and whatever doesn't translate well at all to the internet.
I agree completely. Sarcasm is a type of humor intended for a dialog but, in fact is improved by the involvement of multiple people and yet on the internet where you're most likely to get responses from multiple people before the joke dies it's very tricky to catch that what was said was a joke at all.