[Foundation-l] Handholding for new articles (Was: Re: 80% of our projects are failing)

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Thu Dec 4 01:28:23 UTC 2008


2008/12/3 David Goodman <dgoodmanny at 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.


- d.



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