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HEY LOOKIT, THIS HERE'S A SUMMARY: angry man yelling at clouds gets downvoted. You mean a topic sentence or an introduction? You mean Bottom Line Up Front (BLU
by fargle 5y ago
HEY LOOKIT, THIS HERE'S A SUMMARY: angry man yelling at clouds gets downvoted.
You mean a topic sentence or an introduction? You mean Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) format?
Or do you mean that millennial minds are simply too advanced to be able to parse these kind of things without that annoying "TLDR:" tag?
So yes, I agree you should have the essence of a TLDR, but I don't agree it needs to be called that or tagged that way. I don't think that's in any way a recent or novel invention. I think to literally write "TLDR:" is rather unpleasant and gives the impression that you think the reader lazy, and he needs overly obvious pointers.
So from now on, I resolve to use "HEY LOOKIT, THIS HERE'S A SUMMARY:" instead of "TLDR:".
- GianFabien 5y agore: BLUF In newspaper journalism the principle used to be to write the essential information first and then go into additional details the further you got into the article. When space was running tight, editors would simple chop off the bottom of articles to make them fit without needing to rewrite anything.