There was discussion on trying to have tone indicators used more often on Hexbear to make the space more ND inclusive. This is a slick looking set of tone indicator emojis that could be integrated relatively easily. Having tone indicators as emojis might make then more convenient for users and would also make them stand out much more clearly in a post.
Here is the list in this set: /gen (genuine) /hj (half joking) /ij (inside joke) /j (joking) /lit (literal) /- (negative) /+ (positive) /ref (reference) /rh (rhetorical) /s (sarcastic) /srs (serious) /? (what tone is this)
the /hj tone indicator is worse than useless
from the perspective of an autistic person who often has trouble inferring what people mean through text online
/hj1 “non-literal but sincere”
/hj2 “literal but funny”
/hj3 “ambiguous on purpose”
there really shouldn’t be a thing in a set of accessibility tools for clarifying intent that has the function of making intent less clear
it’s not disambiguating, it’s ambiguating“wait, none of those definitions are how I use /hj! it actually means…”
congratulations, that’s a fourth definition, making it more ambiguous“some part of this is meant as a joke, but not all of it, and I’ll let you figure out which part is which!”
Other than that looks good.
Absolutely. /hj was either came up by an NT who fundamentally doesn't understand why autistic people want tone markers or someone who wants an "I'm joking unless you agree with me in which case I'm being serious" tone marker. The whole point of tone markers is to remove ambiguity. To someone who can't read tone in text, every statement functionally has an /hj attached to the end.
