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by dalke 3752 days ago
I was quite peeved when I first saw a "tl;dr" comment concerning one of my blog posts. My thought was, and still is somewhat, "if you didn't read it, how can you say it was too long for what it needed to cover? Why do you feel the need to tell others that you have the attention span of a fly?"

We already have terms like "summary", "digest", and even "précis"; why create a new term imbued with snark?