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True, convoluted text is much better than the outright hostility present on Reddit.

I thought people used "tl;dr" mostly because dismissing things is so much fun, not because they'd be willing to read a shortened version.



> I thought people used "tl;dr" mostly because dismissing things is so much fun, not because they'd be willing to read a shortened version.

You might well be right! But I like to give the benefit of the doubt.




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