Sarcasm comes across much better in person than via text, which I’m sure you agree with.
I completely disagree. Body language betrays your sarcasm much more easily in person. In text is where it's much easier to hide the meaning you are trying to convey and confuse your audience.
It's really not. Satire just isn't for you if you don't want risk being misunderstood. You don't write the opposite of what you mean if you must be understood clearly the first time.
Satire is a necrophile.
It's not that the point is ruined. It's that it's no longer sarcasm. The whole point of sarcasm is that it seems like the message is genuine. Ironically, using /s makes a statement unsarcastic.
But that's the point of sarcasm. Jonathan Swift got lots of death threats by mail after writing "A Modest Proposal," and he expected it! If someone doesn't want to risk being misunderstood, they should not write the opposite of what they mean.
That's the whole point of sarcasm though, that the delivery seems genuine. Don't write the opposite of what you mean if you aren't willing to have some people misunderstand you.
And yes, people who use sarcastic tone in conversation are also missing the point. They also should not say the opposite of what they mean.
Some disgruntled reader mailing them a letter?
Yes! Jonathan Swift received a ton of death threats after writing "A Modest Proposal."
Without it, if your sarcastic enough often enough, you’ll run into people who unironically agree with you on whatever you’ve sarcastically said.
That's literally the point of sarcasm. If you don't want people to get confused, don't write the opposite of what you mean.
Then just don't write the opposite of what you mean. It's not funny or witty or clever to write "Women should all just live in the kitchen, NOT."
Sarcastic tone is stupid.
You don't write the opposite of what you mean. And Poe's law isn't a problem to be combatted, it's a gift.