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as much as tl;dr is increasingly irritating when used in this way, baiting downvotes is also not cool.
by JonnieCache 10y ago
as much as tl;dr is increasingly irritating when used in this way, baiting downvotes is also not cool.
- ggus 10y agocould you explain why is it irritating?
- Jaruzel 10y agoI'm not baiting down-votes. Far from it. Just voicing that TL;DR is annoying. There's a reason you can't have both text AND a url in a HN submission - it's to encourage people to actually visit the link. Next, we'll have people just copy-pasting the entire article body as a comment ... :(
- pjc50 10y ago> it's to encourage people to actually visit the link. You read the links? I'm just here for the commenting. If the comments imply the article is good enough I'll read it. (This effect used to be very strong on the Guardian's commentisfree site, where the top comments often contained valuable correction/context to the tritness of the article) > Next, we'll have people just copy-pasting the entire article body as a comment I've seen that done a few times; it's useful if it's paywalled/adwalled/unusuable-crashy-javascript-walled.