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TL;DR version - People like to believe life is possible only in it's short and simple version... No life is not!
It's a chain of lots of things, so better get learning it all (in small AND ALSO bigger chunks)
(... with people's emotions and connected things!....)

Longer version - People prefer short writing but overlook it's
a) not the whole story
b) not a skill everyone has

(give this author a break and I don't mind you skip reading the rest!)

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And even if you have the skill of summarising (which I don't think everyone has) telling people in short can feel rude, out of context, or abrupt, misleading, disrespecting more things in that actual process

Usually the main thing is realising who you audience is and what it's for but almost ONLY of it's under tight control conditions but otherwise the whole of the Fediverse means it's also more upto those readers who enter the realm of blogging to see / speak with some people to see if they are a 'good egg' and go from there rather than expect something PERFECTLY short or emotionally clear as crystal !

We're humans remember (unless you're culturally machine-like like Germans or parts of STEM mentality that actually cut out human parts <--- partial joke about Germans but many culture or engineering processes or languages don't care about nature or people)

TL;DR short descriptions I think are very often possible and worthy to try and add but is a mini-art in itself risking it with the assuming skill of writer and if writer can categorise it well (this post could fit a few things)

Writing I guess should always be explored or not taken at face value for those that would like to write and explore things themselves) so 'writing' in itself doesn't match TL;DR which is 'shorter writing' (it's almost opposite to writing unless it's a status update or functional "I'm out to the shops - be back in 20mins"

Short descriptions need thinking what light to write it in...

This brings us to the next main point that LIFE is a communal / shared thing - it's not just my view (even my view is made from yours and 1000's of others, and if suffering etc is also constant naturally and less-naturally as humans then it's collective view and concept not just me detached from environment or me detached from you even! <---in a roundabout way )

Usually facts or mechanical ways are preferred in TL;DR versions but this doesn't suit a lot of life!

So if it's a life thing (full of chains / domino effects) or emotional things.. then what do short descriptions expect? To reduce the emotions or write generically for everything 'emotional feelings about xyz' ? (ok that actually seems to work but then you would still have to read more !

So TL;DR for many parts of human life becomes just another title for what the post title or intro would be anyway... probably

I like that the short version 'forces' me to right key parts but still it's like saying this post is about "hitting bat with ball" but needs lots of description and additional video to explain that process or which bat and which ball, the side-effects (spin / trajectory etc) and for humans that's emotions and internal stuff, not technology external stuff.

I wish Mastodon had a 'Show more' option (like the CW / Content Warning does) but so far no luck on that... even though it would be exactly same as CW just without the status of CW... showing a show more button... technology also encourages good practice sometimes even if box below the button could lead to more details.

Emotions are not short, and therefore forcing TL;DR modes is like cramming human thought through thin mechanical tubes, instead of more appropriate therapy like sessions where you get to the bottom and answer why a human gave such output at the beginning or expression (by going through the HUMAN layers and also helping people see what they mean too)

TL;DR for it's inappropriate usage (more-human things) is simply cutting out this process or expecting people to do all the humanity work (which itself is listening and responding - or harmonising). Machines are the one's with 'perfect' protocols so as humans one must assume more time and less skill in various ways.

P.S
IF YOU SEE SIMILAR STUFF LIKE THIS WRITTEN ELSEWHERE THEN LET ME KNOW SO I CAN SIMPLY LINK TO IT INSTEAD OF THINKING IT IS HARDLY SAID / ANALYSED

Did write it fast (today was a monster day of writing about TL;DR / short version - just the other posts out even if it's just for the pictures lol you TL;DRer!

- TL;DR or tl;dr - "too long; didn't read"...

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