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by Orva 4759 days 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
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A TL;DR is just a summary, it doesn't need to contain all the information in the original text to be useful.
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.
You're saying that anything that can be summarised must have originally contained a trivial amount of information?