Pet peeve

[kane_magus]

"tl;dr" is the Internet equivalent of saying "I am lazy and stupid".

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[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

inb4 tl;dr

[tokoz.livejournal.com]

I am unfamiliar with that 'net acronym. What does it mean?

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

It means "too long; didn't read."

When someone posts something on a forum or somewhere that takes longer than, say, a minute or so to read, some idiot will invariably post immediately afterward with "tl;dr". What they're trying to say is "I think you wrote too much, and I'm not going to bother reading it because I'm too lazy to do so, but I'm going to make a stupid, pointless comment anyway, in a lame, failed attempt to be edgy and cool."

[kitten-faust.livejournal.com]

> "tl;dr" is another sign of an unsuccessful Internet troll

Actually, I haven't seen anyone seriously use that in a very long time; it's usually "(long post) tl;dr: (maybe witty summary)".

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

I still see it fairly often, enough so that I'm long past sick of it.

I've used it myself on occasion in the sense that you're talking about (i.e. writing a long post, then putting a short summary at the end prefaced by "tl;dr version" or some such), but yeah I still see plenty of morons using it in the original manner (i.e. someone writes something with more than two or three paragraphs in it, and then someone else comes along and posts an annoying, single line "tl;dr" comment in response).