From their about page:

"The Halfbakery is a communal database of original, fictitious inventions, edited by its users. It was created by people who like to speculate, both as a form of satire and as a form of creative expression. (To learn more about what ideas are appropriate, see the help section.) "

Seems to have been around for a long time.

I remember frequenting this site back in early early 200X's, the community was very vibrant back then. Perfect for people who always have ideas rattling around in their head.

I always wondered why TL;DR requests are being consistently down voted. Sometimes this is not a "too long don't CARE to read" but rather "I'm not sure I'm getting what this is about without investing a few hours into it so please kind Sirs and Ladies, can you sum up in a sentence?". Thanks for responding, responders.

For me, "TL;DR" inevitably implies a certain laziness. If a person really means, "I tried to understand this but I'm not getting it", maybe they could say that.

Given that the top reply to this post is a copy and paste from the first paragraph of the about page, I could see why people suspect the querent did not work very hard before posting, and so values their own time more than that of other people here. That might not be true, but I think it's on the asker to make that clearer, not the readers to guess.

I skimmed the page up and down and couldn't find what it was all about.

And I redid that same thing before posting the TL;DR;

Then that would have been a good thing to say. If you say you didn't read something when you actually did, you can't blame people for taking you at your word.

Fair enough. This is the old implicit vs explicit argument.

I've seen these kind of requests received better when they're phrased "Is anyone with more experience in the field able to summarise what's cool about this?"

tl;dr on this guy's post?

Funny. Take an upvote :)

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