tl;dr

recylingbin

Does posting this make you
a) cool;
b) too busy to read a long post
c) too moronic to read a long post

?

Bonus point for the first moron to post tl;dr.

4zn76tysfajdxp

Dunno lol

MagicMarker

too long, did not read.

BluesBerry

Must resist urge to post it.......

feck it TLDR

thats better

Aidric

I love a good paragraph.

Quazzie

I can read "hidden" text too.

And the answer is d) all of the above

recylingbin

MagicMarker wrote: »

too long, did not read.

sneaky.

allanb49

busy

I just saw cool what was the point of this?

Biggins

It makes me think, there must be something to the posting - interesting and detailed maybe.
More often than not, I'd read a post that someone else had said was "tl;dr"

I like to be educated - and if not that, at least informed as to how others are thinking so I can get a better understanding of where they are coming from.

It helps shape further compromises down the line I found in the past.

Feeona

Is your username 'recylingbin' because you were too lazy to put in the other c?

Brendog

busy

recylingbin wrote: »

Does posting this make you
a) cool;
b) too busy to read a long post
c) too moronic to read a long post

?

Bonus point for the first moron to post tl;dr.

Anyone who posts it is a moron.


If they were truely lazy they would post "Meh"

Banned Account

80% of what you need is contained in 20% of where you are looking for it. So a bit of editing on behalf of the OP would be well received much of the time. If I find that an article is making me lose interest halfway through, I might post that it was too long and I didn't read it - not for kudos though, just because it really didn't get the OP's point across to me.

If others want to read it all - that's fine by me. Don't really see an issue to be honest.

WIZE

I dont get why people use tl:dr

If your too Lazy to read a post why let everyone know about it

I believe everyone types it just for Post count

we'llallhavetea_old

why would anyone think it's cool?

it's pointless and retarded imo.

Zombienosh

It took me a minute to work out what that meant.... I guess im not a big a nerd as i thought i was.

recylingbin

Feeona wrote: »

Is your username 'recylingbin' because you were too lazy to put in the other c?

It's not, no.
But your the first person EVER to notice that. Well done. You must be smart.

phasers

Secret option D

Thrill

busy

It's the coolest thing ever in the history of the internet.

So there.

MickShamrock

Moronic.

BluesBerry

All jokes aside if someone has gone to the trouble of starting a thread and looking for opinions answering it with tldr is a bit of an insult

If you have no interest and dont want to read it then dont post it up nobody cares if your not interested just click out of it and find another thread that interests you

TLDR should be banned

(I know I wrote tldr in the 3rd post but that was a joke):o

Gone West

recylingbin wrote: »

It's not, no.
But your the first person EVER to notice that. Well done. You must be smart.

Are you going to pretend that there is some funny/historic reason for the typo in your name?

Goodshape

As a response to post, it's trying to be cool. Which is rarely ever cool.

As an addendum to your own post, shortening a longer point for those in a hurry, it's useful.


tl;dr -- response = bad, addendum = good.

recylingbin

Fuzzy wrote: »

Are you going to pretend that there is some funny/historic reason for the typo in your name?

I'm not, no.
recyclingbin was taken.

biko

It's an indication to the OP that the post is way to long and/or need paragraphs.

recylingbin

biko wrote: »

It's an indication to the OP that the post is way to long and/or need paragraphs.

too long is a reflection on the reader, not the author.
In need of paragraphs, I understand. But, tl;dr does not indicate this.

Brendog

busy

Fitzcaraldo wrote: »

80% of what you need is contained in 20% of where you are looking for it. So a bit of editing on behalf of the OP would be well received much of the time. If I find that an article is making me lose interest halfway through, I might post that it was too long and I didn't read it - not for kudos though, just because it really didn't get the OP's point across to me.

If others want to read it all - that's fine by me. Don't really see an issue to be honest.

90% of stats are made up....

Biggins

If I post something substantial and long, I mention "Long article" in the title or first post headline.

Those that come along later and tell me a post is too long to read, well that confuses me.
After all they took the time to at least glance over it, to get the gist of it, they then took the time to post that they were too tired and its too long!
Go figure! LOL

--Kaiser--

busy

Brevity..soul..wit

Banned Account

recylingbin wrote: »

too long is a reflection on the reader, not the author.
In need of paragraphs, I understand. But, tl;dr does not indicate this.

Rubbish I'm afraid - If one chooses to type 60 pages to explain how (s)he felt seeing two winos kissing and posts it on a public chat forum then it is perfectly the right of all who open the thread to have their say on the post in question as long as they stick to the charter.

By starting a thread you are inviting comment on its content - don't tale offecnce if some tell you that you're waffling.

Banned Account

Brendog wrote: »

90% of stats are made up....

indeed but not by me!

recylingbin

Fitzcaraldo wrote: »

Rubbish I'm afraid - If one chooses to type 60 pages to explain how (s)he felt seeing two winos kissing and posts it on a public chat forum then it is perfectly the right of all who open the thread to have their say on the post in question as long as they stick to the charter.

By starting a thread you are inviting comment on its content - don't tale offecnce if some tell you that you're waffling.

But how would you know the post was too long unless you read it?

Banned Account

recylingbin wrote: »

But how would you know the post was too long unless you read it?

Time is a relative concept. If the reader of the piece spends a certain lenngth of time which they deem appropriate and have not elicited anthing they deem useful or to the point then it should be up to them to call this out.

It comes down to your target audience - if you want to write a 3,000 constitutional law book then do so knowing your target audience will have the interest to read it and to make time to do so.

If you are on an internet chat forum then be aware that many people will be doing other things at the same time and may not have 10 minutes to read a long article.

Canis Lupus

Don't mind TL;DR

I'm currently HATING 'cool story bro'. It seems to be gaining traction on boards. I just hope it doesn't become the new 'your ma'.

recylingbin

Fitzcaraldo wrote: »

Time is a relative concept. If the reader of the piece spends a certain lenngth of time which they deem appropriate and have not elicited anthing they deem useful or to the point then it should be up to them to call this out.

It comes down to your target audience - if you want to write a 3,000 constitutional law book then do so knowing your target audience will have the interest to read it and to make time to do so.

If you are on an internet chat forum then be aware that many people will be doing other things at the same time and may not have 10 minutes to read a long article.

So they will have read some of it to determine whether the post was going somewhere?
Why would someone waste their 'oh so precious' time posting it if they haven't the time/attention span to read the post?

we'llallhavetea_old

Canis Lupus wrote: »

Don't mind TL;DR

I'm currently HATING 'cool story bro'. It seems to be gaining traction on boards. I just hope it doesn't become the new 'your ma'.

"cool story bro" is the worst, makes me wanna kick the poster up the hole. :mad:

kfallon

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

makes me wanna kick the poster up the hole. :mad:

Short and yet brilliantly to the point!

Deus Ex Machina

Of course it is stupid, just like all of the other constantly repeated jokes which appear here, your ma etc. Even if they were mildly amusing in their own right, which they sure as hell ain't, they would be boring by now.

I have too short an attention span to read l- OOH SHINY!!!



no seriously it sounds silly
except for REALLY epic posts that aren't worth reading

Rylan

Well my opinion on it is like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...

stovelid

busy

Not a huge fan, but I'm less of a fan of rabble polls so I guess that means I'll fight to the last breath for tl;dr to be retained in AH.

bnt

stovelid wrote: »

Not a huge fan, but I'm less of a fan of rabble polls so I guess that means I'll fight to the last breath for tl;dr to be retained in AH.

Just because you have the right to do something, doesn't mean you should do it.

The problem is not in thinking that something is too long. It's not in that you didn't read it. The problem is that you think it's necessary for you to say so. The author of the post in question is not going to do anything in response to "tl;dr". It's just a waste of space and, on a forum like this, that makes you a waste of space.

nibtrix

BluesBerry wrote: »

All jokes aside if someone has gone to the trouble of starting a thread and looking for opinions answering it with tldr is a bit of an insult

If you have no interest and dont want to read it then dont post it up nobody cares if your not interested just click out of it and find another thread that interests you

A lot of the cases where it seems to be used are in response to generic copypasta "hey look at this hilarious joke/news item/amazing information I found on the internetz". When it's used as a reply to this at least it is less annoying than the phrase "old joke is old".

I agree that it can sometime be quite mean to post it when someone is genuinely looking for feedback/replies.

Scuid Mhór

unless the wall of text is extremely stupid, stating 'tl;dr' is effectively backpeddling out of responding to something if it's aimed at you or it's a really bad shot at humour on your part.

Wibbs

I really shouldnt make any comment on this poll..... :D

Diabhal Beag

What annoys me is when two people get in a big discussion that pages of bickering. tl;dr is ****ty granted but it doesn't hurt to have a brief summary at the bottom of a very long post.

Havermeyer

BluesBerry wrote: »

All jokes aside if someone has gone to the trouble of starting a thread and looking for opinions answering it with tldr is a bit of an insult

If you have no interest and dont want to read it then dont post it up nobody cares if your not interested just click out of it and find another thread that interests you

TLDR should be banned

(I know I wrote tldr in the 3rd post but that was a joke):o

Some people think it's funny, when it quite obviously isn't. There should be some sort of automatic ban in place for any poster that responds to a thread with it.

mikemac

unfunny post is unfunny
hateful post is hateful

I'm only seen this in the last few weeks
Now maybe I'm blind and it's been around for years but I'm only just become aware of it

If you've no interest in a thread then click away, tl;dr is an insult to the OP

And if you think you are funny with a Mary Harney joke or dew took our jewbs then think again.

Original posts are funny so be original

Gone West

recylingbin wrote: »

I'm not, no.
recyclingbin was taken.

Nope its not...
Your name is a typo, username failure. :pac:

Donkey Oaty

feelingstressed wrote: »

unfunny post is unfunny
hateful post is hateful

I'm only seen this in the last few weeks

Typical lame response:

Recent discoverer of irritating meme is irritating.

(stated by someone who discovered it a few weeks and a day before you but passes themselves off as an expert on internet culture)

Donkey Oaty

Fuzzy wrote: »

Nope its not...
Your name is a typo, username failure. :pac:

Didn't you mean "No, it wasn't?"

/Hilarious Grammar Nazi

FreudianSlippers

moron

I usually don't "TL;DR" unless the OP doesn't understand paragraphs or common grammar. Mainly then even I'm too busy or lazy to try to decipher the cryptic block of text in front of me.

Some people just do it on any long post - even well written ones (eg. the hangover cure thread) and that's just fecking annoying.