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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/12/3 David Goodman <dgoodmanny(a)gmail.com>om>:
>> 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.