Dr. Fauci Has NOT Tested Positive for COVID-19

[MineralMan]

Some Twit twitted that he had tested positive as a joke, and people are not reading the entire tweet to see that it is satire.

Please do not post stuff like that here with misleading headlines.

Thank you.

[lamp_shade]

1. Thank you.

[Miguelito Loveless]

2. The post I saw on Twitter

said he tested positive for ITOLDUSO-19.

[Mike 03]

4. +1

That's it.

[MineralMan]

6. Yes. As I said, people do not read the entire tweet

and run to post it on DU, where others also do not bother to read the tweet. That's always a risk of posting satire here. I've learned to make my satirical posts obvious by signalling that they are satire.

People often only read the post title.

[mucifer]

9. If it's a silly playful tweet I think it's ok But, Fauci having Covid or someone dying yeah that

post should be deleted.

[MineralMan]

13. It is a fine line, of course.

It's unfortunate that subtle satire doesn't work on Internet discussion forums. The art of satire is to present humor as something that might be true, but isn't. Various techniques can be used to signal that a piece of writing is satire. However, on the Internet, there are too many people who don't bother to read things closely and therefore miss the signals.

Many DUers, for example, read only the title of a post and immediately reply to the post without reading it or reading any other posts in a thread.

That's unfortunate for those who use satire as a means of communication. Satire online has to be blunt and its signals must be even blunter, sadly.

[SharonClark]

16. "people do not read the entire tweet"

That's the problem, not the original one sentence tweet.
There are no excuses for people reacting to something they haven't even read.

[MineralMan]

19. Well, yes, people should read entire posts, but they do not.

In addition, if someone posts a tweet here, many DUers cannot see the tweet itself, and only see the post title. So, they cannot read the entire post.

Life is complicated. Thinking before posting is hard.

[COL Mustard]

28. Personally, I Thought It Was Hilarious

You know Fauci is trying so hard not to say it.

[marble falls]

35. I agree 100%. I think its a shame that we have become so intellectually lazy we have to be ...

protected from a simple seven word sentence that has comic non-word in it.

[malaise]

12. correct and it is funny

but the ITOLDYOUSO-19 should have been in the headline

[MineralMan]

20. I see that the other OP edited the post title to include that.

Live and learn.

[malaise]

21. Agree

because he did tell them so

[Miguelito Loveless]

22. True

[unblock]

3. Hey if we can't do trick or treating door to door this year,

We gotta get in our little jump scares in somehow

[ihas2stinkyfeet]

14. yeah, i think they will do it by me, cuz

i live in a very mexicano hood. but i am gonna put a couple pieces of gutter together so i can drop the treats from my second story window.

[cwydro]

33. What does living in a "Mexicano hood" have to do with it?

What am I missing?

[ihas2stinkyfeet]

34. it's a big deal here. eve of dia de los muertos.

all the taquerias and the mexican grocery stores, etc give out candy.
it's like a cattle stampede on the main drag.

[burrowowl]

40. Nov 1 is all saints day and nov 2 is the day of the dead or poor souls

I know it is my birthday and lived in Mexico and sang requiem masses on my birthday. It was one of the days like Easter and Xmas where the priest could say 3 masses. U$ commercialism has really screwed things up with having people think may 5 is Mexican Independence Day

[ihas2stinkyfeet]

42. ah. thank you for the correction. i should know better.

i knew about all souls day, being raised a catholic.
my big sister got married on nov 1, and had to get a dispensation from the diocese to have a regular mass at the wedding.

i dont see a lot of day of the dead stuff happening on the block, but i wouldnt expect them to invite me. there is a big deal at the mexican fine arts center in a more heavily mexican neighborhood, tho.

[BlueDawn]

5. Thank you, MineralMan.

[USALiberal]

7. kick

[Trumpocalypse]

8. Us twits are so misunderstood.

[MineralMan]

10. Satire certainly has its place on DU.

I post original satirical posts here occasionally, myself. However, I have learned that I must signal the readers that my post is satire very obviously to avoid confusing people who only read post titles and then instantly react.

So, all of my satirical post titles start with the word, BROKEN, and end with the sarcasm smilie

That has ended the criticism from people who do not bother to read posts closely.

[USALiberal]

15. +1000! nt

[LanternWaste]

26. Ironic

[MineralMan]

31. Irony is a funny thing, isn't it?

[marble falls]

37. As a concept you bet; but I can think of specifically ironic tragedies.

[KS Toronado]

36. BROKEN NEWS...MineralMan Has NOT Tested Positive for COVID-19

Sorry, unable to copy & paste sarcasm smilie.

[marble falls]

38. I sincerely hope that doesn't become ironic.

[KS Toronado]

43. I agree, already to much suffering world wide on account of it.

[stonecutter357]

11. K&R

[RandiFan1290]

17. OUTRAGEOUS!!!11

I'm off to start my own vanity post on this topic!

[marble falls]

39. You tested positive for OUTRAGEOUS!!!11??? That's ironic!

[SMC22307]

18. Keeping this kicked to counter the utter stupidity elsewhere...

[AwakeAtLast]

23. Gotta admit, it gave me a start.

Until I read the whole thing.

[niyad]

24. I was on several juries this week where it was clear that the alerter did not read the entire post.

[NNadir]

25. It didn't bother me at all. I shared the joke with my family, with a pause for the punchline.

[progree]

27. 70% of people don't read beyond the headline on articles they share

70% of people don't read beyond the headline on articles they share", says Emily Bell, founding director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University

[IronLionZion]

29. Judy Gold was pranking people as a lame joke

tensions and anxiety are high these days so my heart skipped a beat too when I first saw it

Link to tweet

[Politicub]

30. Hated seeing that. It wasn't funny or clever.

[paleotn]

32. Oh, dear god....

Maybe we should read things in their entirety before calling someone a twit? Just saying. And no, it wasn't me on the twitter.

Chill, folks. Jesus.

[burrowowl]

41. It even happens on non-sarcastic post.

Yes people read and comprehend before getting knickers in a twist