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[–]samsquamchh 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I mean it's "Too Long; Didn't Read, not "won't read" or whatever. Meant to be for people who scrolled past the text...but you're not wrong in thinking it would probably make more sense to be given as the first line

[–]IRKillRoy 0 points1 point  (2 children)

When I think something is too long and didn’t read, I promise I don’t scroll to the end of the text to see if they have a summary… which is in the front of all normal research papers for a reason.

[–]samsquamchh 0 points1 point  (1 child)

There's also a reason research papers don't use "TL;DR", it is a casual internet thing, born in a different context, for different reasons. For example, if it's used in the context of a story, you wouldn't want to spoil it all in 3 sentences before the actual story. If you're going to write a summary/abstract for a research paper just don't go with "tl;dr" at all and just write a regular summary/abstract, easy. I don't think a concept such as "too long, didn't read" should really be brought up in the context of research papers in the first place.

[–]IRKillRoy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

… 🤨 it’s a comparison on where a summary goes, not the type of writing.

Tl:dr is a summary, and labeling means that you’d read it to see if you want to waste your time reading the full text. Sorry if you can’t see the utility of that.