I enjoyed that article, and its important to note that "snark" has a long and generally successful history. They used to call it "wit" and many writers built a career around it. In the workplace, wit is often a way to rail against pointless mind-numbing hierarchies without actually assaulting anyone ;-)
Haha :)
I ended up writing the blog entry, and by the time I was done, my snarky inspiration had somehow transformed into something resembling diplomacy.
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[ 0.18 ms ] story [ 901 ms ] threadsnark includes a snide/smug element; wit rarely does
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
A true friend stabs you in the front.
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Just as examples. Admittedly I'm cherry-picking, but I'm 100% convinced that smugness or a sense of self-superiority is integral to "wit."
Further: wit is often self-deprecating (and some of those Wildisms may have been offered in that spirit), while snark hardly ever is.