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It's also getting quite common so see just:

/flame

I can only imagine that's coming from the html-style metadata they are showing in these exactly, but made a lot easier to type for non-hackers. I rather like it myself, even.



This might be related to the fact that some broken web applications blindly remove angle brackets instead of properly escaping them.


To me, that plain "/flame" at the beginning of a line looks more like a pseudo-IRC. Note that IRC is still common among lots of hackers. Other IRC-related statements might be:

/me is angry|happy|whatever

/join ...

any maybe others. Those aren't used very often, though.


Actually, I see it at the end. Example:

I totally love what you did there.

/sarcasm

At the beginning, I'd definitely agree with you.


But then, you can't tell whether the sarcasm was intended from the very beginning of the message or merely the last sentence/paragraph.


I prefer this method in irc </sarcasm>




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