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Marlona Sky
D00M.
RED.OverLord
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Posted - 2010.07.07 01:31:00 -
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Is it me or does it seem the attention span of the average forum reader is becoming shorter and shorter? I can understand when people feel obligated to let the OP know, "Hey, I just wanted to inform you that the very second I opened your thread I immediately did not want to read it, but I care enough about it to leave a comment to let you know that with a 'TL;DR' comment."
If it is a wall of text fine, but I have noticed a trend of even the simple well written paragraph is getting TL;DR comments. Is this the new meme?
Also, in before TL;DR! 
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AterraX
Caldari
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Posted - 2010.07.07 01:34:00 -
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 Originally by: Marlona Sky
Is it me or does it seem the attention span of the average forum reader is becoming shorter and shorter? I can understand when people feel obligated to let the OP know, "Hey, I just wanted to inform you that the very second I opened your thread I immediately did not want to read it, but I care enough about it to leave a comment to let you know that with a 'TL;DR' comment."
If it is a wall of text fine, but I have noticed a trend of even the simple well written paragraph is getting TL;DR comments. Is this the new meme?
Also, in before TL;DR!
It's the FOTM...but we all know that only dead fish flows with the current ;)
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Nicholas Barker
Black Nova Corp
IT Alliance
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Posted - 2010.07.07 01:36:00 -
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Some people write posts that are interesting the whole way through, some people can't keep me from falling asleep beyond the first two lines.
Sadly most people who decide to post massive long OPs, are the 2nd type of person.
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Aerilis
Gallente
Percussive Diplomacy
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Posted - 2010.07.07 01:36:00 -
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Edited by: Aerilis on 07/07/2010 01:40:07
tl;dr is the new HTFU is the new umad? is the new cool story, bro
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Yuki Kulotsuki
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Posted - 2010.07.07 01:51:00 -
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Edited by: Yuki Kulotsuki on 07/07/2010 01:52:11
My raven was equipped with the following.
Originally by: CCP Lemur
THIS IS GOD: ...
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JC Anderson
Caldari
Deep Core Mining Inc.
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Posted - 2010.07.07 02:39:00 -
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Most of the time tl;dr is nothing but arrogance and laziness.
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Mire Stoude
The Undesirables
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Posted - 2010.07.07 04:26:00 -
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TL;DR is just the forum's way of saying "stop rambling and get to the point."
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Dorian Wylde
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Posted - 2010.07.07 04:33:00 -
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What's worse is the "wall of text" mentality. It's pretty pathetic lately when people think every third word needs a new paragraph.
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James Tritanius
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Posted - 2010.07.07 05:01:00 -
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tl;dr
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VicturusTeSaluto
Metafarmers
MeatSausage EXPRESS
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Posted - 2010.07.07 05:10:00 -
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tl;dr is older than the internet. What are you on about?
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Opertone
Caldari
Metalworks
Majesta Empire
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Posted - 2010.07.07 06:04:00 -
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The content of the forum posts becomes less and less topical or informative. Repeating the same thing over and over becomes old. Forum readers filter more in search of good content.
TL; DR - Posts are old and boring
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Arushia
Nova Labs
New Eden Research.
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Posted - 2010.07.07 06:11:00 -
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That's a Templar.
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Pesky LaRue
Minmatar
Brotherhood Of Fallen Angels
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Posted - 2010.07.07 06:13:00 -
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Originally by: Marlona Sky
Is it me or does it seem the attention span of the average forum reader is becoming shorter and shorter? I can understand when people feel obligated to let the OP know, "Hey, I just wanted to inform you that the very second I opened your thread I immediately did not want to read it, but I care enough about it to leave a comment to let you know that with a 'TL;DR' comment."
If it is a wall of text fine, but I have noticed a trend of even the simple well written paragraph is getting TL;DR comments. Is this the new meme?
Also, in before TL;DR!
the people that write tl;dr are the same kind of people that are so limited in thinking and devoid of originality that they spew catch-phrases from TV shows, and memes from the internet in the hope that, on it's 7,823,789 iteration, it might get a laugh.
"that's what she said!"
"cool story, bro"
ad nauseum.
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Mme Pinkerton
United Engineering Services
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Posted - 2010.07.07 06:13:00 -
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Originally by: VicturusTeSaluto
tl;dr is older than the internet.
[citation needed]
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Wild Rho
Amarr
Sniggerdly
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Posted - 2010.07.07 06:13:00 -
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It's not simply the length of the post sometimes it's also down to how well it's written as well.
Very few people are willing wade through a massive wall of text unless content is exceptionally engaging but even a well structured post can become hard to read through if the content is mostly rambling, poorly thought out or just plain boring.
Let's face it, many of the larger posts that end up here these days are people posting about the same things everyone has seen before many times over and often no one can be bothered to search the post for any new or interesting points hence asking for a summary (TL;DR version).
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Felix Esperium
Lysergic Distortions Research and Development
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Posted - 2010.07.07 06:27:00 -
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Originally by: Wild Rho
Let's face it, many of the larger posts that end up here these days are people posting about the same things everyone has seen before many times over and often no one can be bothered to search the post for any new or interesting points hence asking for a summary (TL;DR version).
Exactly this. I will post tl;dr in hopes someone else read the boring OP and can summarize it for me because I am lazy and probably don't care in the end anyway.
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