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[bombzero]

first off, i am a bit socially backwards in that i rarely venture from the youtube page's of my subscriptions and the bay12 forums. so..

what does tl;dr mean?

i will think of more later. just starting this thread for when i have another.

[ToonyMan]

tl;dr means "Too long, didn't read"!

[Araph]

what does tl;dr mean?

Actually, I'd been meaning to look that up for a while, since I don't know either.

Apparently it means 'too long; didn't read'.

Ninja'd

[bombzero]

funny, i feel as though i have seen that misused often...

[Hubris Incalculable]

Or it can be used as 'too long, don't read', as a summary for the wall of text that they posted, thus (ripped from wikipedia):

A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical device with keys that, when pressed, cause characters to be printed on a medium, usually paper. Typically one character is printed per keypress, and the machine prints the characters by making ink impressions of type elements similar to the sorts used in movable type letterpress printing. From their invention in 1868 through much of the 20th century, typewriters were indispensable tools for recording the written word. Widely used by professional writers and in offices for decades, by the end of the 1980s, word processors and personal computers largely displaced typewriters in the settings where they previously had been ubiquitous in the western world.

Notable typewriter manufacturer companies have included E. Remington and Sons, IBM, Imperial Typewriters, Oliver Typewriter Company, Olivetti, Royal Typewriter Company, Smith Corona, and Underwood Typewriter Company.

tl;dr typewriters are awesome.

[Araph]

Or it can be used as 'too long, don't read', as a summary for the wall of text that they posted, thus (ripped from wikipedia):

A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical device with keys that, when pressed, cause characters to be printed on a medium, usually paper. Typically one character is printed per keypress, and the machine prints the characters by making ink impressions of type elements similar to the sorts used in movable type letterpress printing. From their invention in 1868 through much of the 20th century, typewriters were indispensable tools for recording the written word. Widely used by professional writers and in offices for decades, by the end of the 1980s, word processors and personal computers largely displaced typewriters in the settings where they previously had been ubiquitous in the western world.

Notable typewriter manufacturer companies have included E. Remington and Sons, IBM, Imperial Typewriters, Oliver Typewriter Company, Olivetti, Royal Typewriter Company, Smith Corona, and Underwood Typewriter Company.

tl;dr typewriters are awesome.

Suddenly a number of instances of me seeing that make sense...

[Loud Whispers]

tl;dr

[bombzero]

Ok new one,

what do you think generally causes thread death? i have seen many a thread with unanswered questions on the last page.

[Leafsnail]

Lack of interest?

[Trapezohedron]

Lack of interest?

That, and if it gets pushed into the other pages other than the first.

[Araph]

That, and if it gets pushed into the other pages other than the first.

This for sure. Being on the first page means everyone sees it, but you need

interest

to keep it there. Otherwise you'll end up poking your own thread a lot, which isn't good.

[klingon13524]

LIBERAL CONSPIRACY! It's always some new hipster stuff that's popular!

[Frumple]

... seriously, no one gave the obvious answer? The cause of thread death is no one posting in them. It's not a complicated issue

[Zrk2]

Nice try, NSA!