Re:When somebody loses weight, where does the fat go?
by mikeash on Monday November 27, 2017 @05:07PM
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Of those four results, the first one is explaining why they don't want author names in titles, the second one explains why they like minimal design, the third one was a false positive on "attention-grabbing Unicode glyphs," and finally the fourth one actually talks about the topic at hand. Why not just link to that one?
The fourth one places a lot of emphasis on the specific implications of "tl;dr" as opposed to other terms like "summary." Given such precision, I'd say the macroexpansion of "tl;dr" would be "too long; didn't read" since that's what it actually stands for.
I'm persuaded that "tl;dr" is best avoided. I'm not persuaded that my comment would or should fall under this guideline.
If you're interested, have a look at https://hn.algolia.com/?query=author:dang%20bookish&sort=byD... to get a sense of the reasoning.
It seems worthwhile to preserve the bookishness of HN. One of the best ways to do this is to make HN seem boring. Reading, writing, and good conversation take time and effort.
"For anyone coming straight to the comments looking for an answer to the question:" seems like a macroexpansion of "tl;dr:".