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It really, really bothers me when people use "tl;dr" on HN. I see it more and more each day as people cross-over from Reddit (or worse, Digg) to this site. I fe
by coderdude 16y ago
It really, really bothers me when people use "tl;dr" on HN. I see it more and more each day as people cross-over from Reddit (or worse, Digg) to this site. I feel like every time I see it I have to train them to not. I would be tickled pink if there was a filter that would auto-remove such comments and submissions from this site. It encourages and enables laziness, which is something this community does not need.
Edit: This was about the previous title to this submission. The submitter fixed it.
- anigbrowl 16y agoI like it. I can generally tell from a tl;dr summary whether the original material was interesting and/or whether it has been fairly summarized.
- jacquesm 16y agoNo, you can tell whether the person making the comment was lazy or not, it won't tell you anything about the original material unless you read that too to verify the summary was correct. And it definitely isn't a rule that they are.