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tl;dr: It is the only way the troll can participate in the greatness/fame/notoriety (as the case may be) of the trollee. FWIW, YMMV.

PeterWhittaker 10y ago
Huh. Why the downvote? Is my summary inaccurate? If so, please, by all means, do better! Downvoting is so lazy....
- DanBC 10y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7789350#7790022 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7789350#7790022 > All: please don't use "tl;dr" on Hacker News. It's fine, of course, to point out relevant details from an article. But it should be part of a considered comment of your own. > HN values intellectual substance. Good reading, writing, and thinking take time. If we're to have high-quality discussion, we need to inhibit the reflex to snap judgment and give the slower and quieter reflective process a chance to function. > Since memes like "tl;dr" are emblems of that shallow reflex, we should heed the broken windows theory and not have them here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12667459 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12667459 > It's important for HN to keep its distance from tldr culture. Longer articles are ok, even if many of us won't read them. It's true of any post that most people won't read it. > Snap summaries make for reflexive reactions. That's the shallow kind of discussion we're hoping to avoid here. What we want is reflection, which is slower, takes more energy, and leads to more considered exchanges. etc etc.
  - PeterWhittaker 10y ago
    And you'll see that the top comment on Dang's comment is a "profound disagreement". We none of us have time to read all articles. I've found and continue to find tl;dr's useful - and judging by upvotes and comments I've received on other pure tl;dr's I've made, this view is widely held. dang and others may wish a certain "intellectual climate" but, for better or for worse, many HN discussions fail to live up to whatever standard he may hope for. Targeting tl;dr's - considered a useful feature by many - is both petty and unhelpful. But thanks for the extensive quote.

PeterWhittaker 10y ago

Huh. Why the downvote? Is my summary inaccurate? If so, please, by all means, do better! Downvoting is so lazy....

DanBC 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7789350#7790022 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7789350#7790022 > All: please don't use "tl;dr" on Hacker News. It's fine, of course, to point out relevant details from an article. But it should be part of a considered comment of your own. > HN values intellectual substance. Good reading, writing, and thinking take time. If we're to have high-quality discussion, we need to inhibit the reflex to snap judgment and give the slower and quieter reflective process a chance to function. > Since memes like "tl;dr" are emblems of that shallow reflex, we should heed the broken windows theory and not have them here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12667459 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12667459 > It's important for HN to keep its distance from tldr culture. Longer articles are ok, even if many of us won't read them. It's true of any post that most people won't read it. > Snap summaries make for reflexive reactions. That's the shallow kind of discussion we're hoping to avoid here. What we want is reflection, which is slower, takes more energy, and leads to more considered exchanges. etc etc.
- PeterWhittaker 10y ago
  And you'll see that the top comment on Dang's comment is a "profound disagreement". We none of us have time to read all articles. I've found and continue to find tl;dr's useful - and judging by upvotes and comments I've received on other pure tl;dr's I've made, this view is widely held. dang and others may wish a certain "intellectual climate" but, for better or for worse, many HN discussions fail to live up to whatever standard he may hope for. Targeting tl;dr's - considered a useful feature by many - is both petty and unhelpful. But thanks for the extensive quote.