On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:28 PM, David Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/12/3 David Goodman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> 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.
Reasonable - I was stream-of-consciousness expanding on an idea, probably should have taken that level of detail offline to wikitech-l or some such. -- -george william herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
