TL;DR Makes Me Want to Punch Someone in the Face.

[dangitall]

I've never seen people say TL;DR after only 7 or 8 sentences. I think TL;DR shouldn't actually exist unless the content is... about 500 words or more?

What people can do to make a long passage shorter to read is to space it out, people are much more willing to read split text rather than a large brick of words.

What does piss me off are some pricks (that probably does not exist on the Escapist) that replies things like "HAHAHAHAHA TLDR STUPID NERDS" to what is otherwise a well-made argument that was not even long to begin with.

 

[Rewdalf]

I guess it's just people's natural reaction to intimidating paragraphs.
Granted, I'm a bit disappointed, but you can't give anyone the benefit of the doubt.

Apparently, being on a computer and browsing online forums makes you exempt from doing any kind of arduous work, but anyone who considers a short paragraph "too much work" simply needs to get their head out of their ass and go pursue something easier to read, and perhaps even stay out of other people's way.

I'm being a bit blunt here, I understand.
It's no problem if you're out to skim something, or just don't feel like reading an overly-complicated post. The problem lies when you decide to post, sometimes as if you're proud, that you didn't read it.

[HEADING=2]It doesn't make you look cool...[/HEADING]

I'll say it again, ignoring things doesn't make you look cool... The only posts I don't read are ones that contain "TL;DR," because I know that whatever they have to say won't be fully competent or related to what they're supposedly trying to respond to.

In the end though, it's just one of those things we have to deal with. It can't be stopped, but it can be ignored...

 

[Stephanie Leberman]

most of the post here are about the length i posted when i got a tl:dr post. ok yes i admit it was one chunk of text but there was an honest point to that. at that it just annoys me that all i get is a "tl:dr" from all of that writeing. seriously how closed minded (and lazy) can people be.

 

[JeffBergGold]

In the past I'd see people post the 'Too Long; Didn't Read' abbreviation to posts that were quite understandably long and hard to read. Like those people who don't section things off into paragraphs or made the entire post one long, long, long run-on sentence. That's not what I'm talking about.

It's the intense miss-use of it I've seen over the more recent years that pisses me off. A post, say, this large was skipped over entirely with the TL;DR montage. This is only, what, six sentences so far? That's not too long! What the fuck?

Is it the current generation or the way people are headed that makes TL;DR more heavily used? Are people just lazy? They can't read anymore? If so, why are they on a forum and replying to a thread they didn't read? It blows my mind and trying to understand it only confuses me. Thus why this thread was created. Why do you think people are in this 'I don't want to read a post' mentality more heavily now?

What really got me was this one RP I was in (on a different forum that I'm not going to link to). I'd write this decent post (let's say three or four paragraphs), nicely detailed, and the person GMing would either ignore my post completely or only reply off the first, say, paragraph of it. Then everyone involved would get confused. When inquired, the GM would say, "Only do a sentence or two a post. I don't want read it all." What? But... I... Grah! And this has happened more than once with different people - to more people than myself.

The whole thing has me worried about literacy as a whole, really. Have you noticed a similar trend? And, if you don't want to ***** about TL;DR, feel free to tell me what abbreviation drives you insane.




(Those who only reply with 'TL;DR' are not original. Besides, who knows what the mods would do to you.)


Captcha: hairy eyeball

Someone who gets upset over TL;DR doesn't seem like the type of person who would be proficient in punching.

TL;DR Do you know how to throw a punch?