top | item 5817769 (no title) Orva | 12 years ago I think that if post has so trivial amount of information that it can be shortened to TLDR, there is never any need to actually read it discuss order hn newest icebraining|12 years ago A TL;DR is just a summary, it doesn't need to contain all the information in the original text to be useful. laumars|12 years ago That's actually how newspapers work though: a big headline to draw your attention, summary to draw your interest and then the body of the article. Kudos|12 years ago You're saying that anything that can be summarised must have originally contained a trivial amount of information?
icebraining|12 years ago A TL;DR is just a summary, it doesn't need to contain all the information in the original text to be useful.
laumars|12 years ago That's actually how newspapers work though: a big headline to draw your attention, summary to draw your interest and then the body of the article.
Kudos|12 years ago You're saying that anything that can be summarised must have originally contained a trivial amount of information?
icebraining|12 years ago
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Kudos|12 years ago