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He really should have put the TL;DR at the top. He could have worded the entire piece as "You may think our policy is capricious and arbitrary but the internet
by thwarted 16y ago
He really should have put the TL;DR at the top. He could have worded the entire piece as "You may think our policy is capricious and arbitrary but the internet is filled with a lot of jerks. We hope to be consistent in our rulings; you'll just have to deal with it, as we don't want to spend our time dealing with lame issues. And this is a lame issue."
- akkartik 16y agoWhat is the point of putting the tl;dr at the bottom, or the middle, or anywhere but the very top?
- thwarted 16y agoI assume to get people to read the piece. TL;DR at the top is kind of like an Executive Summary, and if I saw something labeled an Executive Summary at the top, or even looked like one, I'd skip the whole thing. I think the key is to make the entire piece short enough but not too long so that it's quick to read and the TL;DR can be used as a good way to describe the entire piece in other contexts.
- akkartik 16y ago"TL;DR can be used as a good way to describe the entire piece in other contexts." Absolutely. Perhaps we just shouldn't be using tl;dr within a piece. There's other words for short forms: abstract, summary, conclusion. Signed, your friendly tl;dr nazi
- thwarted 16y agoYeah, but I think tl;dr has a certain, not necessarily all negative, connotation. Labeling it as "abstract", "summary" or even "conclusion" maybe would lessen the chances of it being quoted.