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 <[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. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
