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CMV: Adding /s to a statement kills the joke. Always.

A sarcastic joke or remark should stand on its own merit and no additional indicator should be provided to emphasize or clarify that there is humour. In fact, the doubt that the statement creates, the "is this person serious?" plays a major part in creating a humorous payout.
Poe's Law may be invoked in defense to the /s but again, a quality sarcastic statement will take Poe's Law into account and use it to its advantage! The danger is that it may sometimes lead to failed zingers when the audience takes the statement as non-sarcastic. If this happens, then so be it. Safe, fail-proof humour is worthless. The value of comedy lays in the inherent risk to flop.

It is a travesty that we as a society have grown to accept this diluted brand of comedy as standard or even acceptable.

I've also seen the /s being used in non-comedic context which I find equally offensive. Often in political subs, you will see people attempt to belittle or mock an opposing point of view by making grotesque statements followed by /s. Once again, adding the /s only creates an obvious "please clap now at my cleverness" which completely kills any pertinence of the words.

I understand the /s originated from the loss of tone and visual cues from face-to-face interactions but it's been turned into an instant-funny or instant-clever writing shortcut and it is an embarrassment to the written language.

Anyone who uses /s is automatically not funny or clever.
gpt
In face-to-face conversation there are multiple factors that mark sarcasm, body language, tone, pitch, pace.

Without these markers it would often be impossible to tell if you are joking or if you are completely serious.

On the Internet, these contextual clues are missing. All you see is a black text with no indication as to tone whatsoever.

A lot of times without /s, many people would think you are being completely serious. Just pick your favorite joke and try telling to people in drone monotone. You will see why it does not work.