Nathan wrote:
My sense was that Nikola was using tl:dr to respond not to George's e-mail, but to the process he described for creating a new page. I could be wrong, though.
I wanted to say that due to the length of the text, new users' response would likely be tl;dr. I haven't realized it would be broken over several pages. But even so, I can see people giving up somewhere in the process...
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:28 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
2008/12/3 David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com:
Nothing personal, but when tl;dr is given as a response, it indicates that there is something certainly substantial and probably interesting to be seen and understood--and possibly even used as the basis for action -- as in this case/.
Or it indicates that whoever's trying to make the point needs to write more concisely, at least leading with a summary good enough to hook the reader into reading the rest.
tl;dr = writer fail.