I like the humor but I disagree. Its called an abstract and I'm glad that you can't publish any peer reviewed science paper without it. You can only read a mi

I like the humor but I disagree. Its called an abstract and I'm glad that you can't publish any peer reviewed science paper without it. You can only read a mind blogging tiny fraction of all the information out there. Even in a narrow field of specialization its hard to read everything relevant. Whats better? Reading 10 articles in depth or reading 9 articles in depth and 10 abstracts? I'm pretty sure, the latter is better for point 4. I really wish, abstracts where standard for longer online posts. Maybe, there should be a field for abstracts in the HN submission form.