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Oh. I see. I thought you were referring to responding with tl;dr to other people's posts. You were in fact talking about summarizing your own posts. In that cas
by Kliment 17y ago
Oh. I see. I thought you were referring to responding with tl;dr to other people's posts. You were in fact talking about summarizing your own posts. In that case, why not just say what you just wrote, as in "Summary: ..." and place that at the start of your post? Using tl;dr is certainly less polite.
- hga 17y agoYeah; occasionally I'll find a good posting that hasn't gotten much attention and I'll write more of a "teaser" than a summary comment, something that will hopefully help other HN readers quickly figure out if it's worth reading. A straightforward summary is also OK, but including "tl;dr" (newfangled slang which I had to look up a week or two ago :-) doesn't strike me as particularly polite.