Tone indicators help people to understand the intention (or tone/emotion) of your written words, such as if you’re being genuine or joking. So in other words it’s a tool for people that might …

Apr 21, 2022 · note: tone indicators aren’t required. they’re just a nice tool to use to prevent misunderstanding and make it easier to understand tone in texting. you don’t have to use them …

Congrats, you used them in the first two sentences correctly and I could immediately tell the tone even tho without the tone indicators it would be near impossible to say you weren't actually …

Tone indicators give people who aren't naturally good at reading tone, acces to this part of the information, and they wouldn't otherwise have acces to it. It's that simple.

Tone indicators are important, useful tools that help people who have a hard time reading peoples' meanings using a system that, while not perfectly, genuinely help people.

And it's also rude that if you ask for tone indicators to be offended when "common" things are misconstrued. Because what's common sense to you, isn't common sense to everyone. …

Aug 1, 2022 · Each tone indicator has a meaning that can be explained in words, and personally I would rather people just use those words than the tone indicators themselves. It’s more …

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Jun 13, 2022 · I used a tone indicator today in chat, just a simple "/s" because I was scared people would think of something I said as serious, while I was trying to be sarcastic (for once). …

Dec 8, 2020 · What tone indicators are used for. /s is a tone indicator. From now on, tone indicator will refer to /s, /srs, /j, or any other variants. There are a whole plethora of tone indicators that I …