[Foundation-l] Handholding for new articles (Was: Re: 80% of our projects are failing)

Fri Dec 5 15:19:16 UTC 2008

My sense was that Nikola was using tl:dr to respond not to George's e-mail,
but to the process he described for creating a new page. I could be wrong,
though.

Nathan

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:28 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/12/3 David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com>:
>
> > Nothing personal, but when tl;dr is given as a response, it indicates
> > that there is something certainly substantial and probably interesting
> > to be seen and understood--and possibly even used as the basis for
> > action -- as in this case/.
>
>
> Or it indicates that whoever's trying to make the point needs to write
> more concisely, at least leading with a summary good enough to hook
> the reader into reading the rest.
>
> tl;dr = writer fail.
>
>
> - d.
>
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