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

[Nikola Smolenski]

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 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.