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 On [[Wikipedia]], people have unsuccessfully tried to outlaw sarcasm, eventually culminating in [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Sarcasm is really helpful|this essay]].<ref>Ironically, this essay is against sarcasm, and it gets this through by being entirely sarcastic.</ref>
-Users on [[TV Tropes]] tend to mark sarcasm in what they write by making the sentence in question and [[Pothole Magnet|potholing it to this page]]. '''Do NOT do this.''' It's a much better idea to just write in a way that makes the sarcasm clear. Limit the potholes to when it's actually necessary, like for showing the sarcasm in a quote whose sarcasm isn't apparent without the pothole.
+Users both here and on [[TV Tropes]] have been known to mark sarcasm in what they write by potholing the sarcasm in question [[Pothole Magnet|to this page]]. '''Do NOT do this.''' It's a much better idea to just write in a way that makes the sarcasm clear. Limit the potholes to when it's actually necessary, like for showing the sarcasm in a quote whose sarcasm isn't apparent without the pothole.
 Compare and contrast [[Sincerity Mode]].