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by johnday 857 days ago
No? It's in the imperative voice, it wouldn't make sense to read "do this" as a description of an antipattern.
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michaelcampbell 857 days ago
Why not? A TL;DR is a summation of the article. The title tells what the article's about.

So just reading the title and the tl;dr would leave one with no actual idea of the antipattern. What if the article was about something for which the imperative voice was an accurate description?

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johnday 856 days ago
Describing something in the imperative voice doesn't make sense.

Why would you ever say "TL;DR perform this action" instead of "TL;DR performing this action", when trying to describe something that people should not do?

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