Gregory's ServerThis is a proposal to expand the tried tl;dr standard for further usecases.
The authors propose
pw;dr - paywall; didn't read
ai;dr - ai, didn't read
This is a draft.
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 @Rollenspielblog Too ambiguous with "tmp;dr - too much propaganda; didn't read" @finlaydag33k @Rollenspielblog @holothuroid my shorthand for that is “Scrambled eggs” (pop ups about cookies, surveys, etc. blocking the page), so mine would be se;db (didn’t bother)  @roque @finlaydag33k @Rollenspielblog @holothuroid this could be generalized to tmb;dr: too many barriers; didn't read  @nightoo  @holothuroid honestly for me the most common would be v;dw — video, didn't watch. Could also be v;cr — video, can't read. Sick of people sharing a video explanation of something, rather than just telling. @Setok @holothuroid I've been using tv;dw (too video; didn't watch) to stay in the four-character format. I blame the Google Wave product launch in ca. 2009 which insinuated that you can't understand the product by reading alone, you had to watch the video. (Not even the video helped people get it.) @jks @holothuroid after typing my post I also realised v;cr is fun for the whole VCR link :) @Setok @jks @holothuroid I'm thinking a site-specific ad-blocker rule for the <video> tag might be helpful here. I particularly detest when you scroll past the clip and it pops up in a sidebar like I wasn't trying to ignore it. @Setok @jks @holothuroid My current approach is to inspect something close, like a frame or a drop shadow around the clip, then step up to the enclosing tag (often an iframe) and delete the damn thing. It doesn't happen quite often enough for a custom ublock rule, but I'm on the cusp. @alan @jks @holothuroid this is the real stuff we need to get AI working on: shutting down the annoying crap on the web. (Actually a previous company of mine, Attractive.ai, was almost on that mission)   @cdonat@hostsharing.coop @holothuroid@rollenspiel.social this is a more specific version of this i think @holothuroid I propose ab;dr - artifical "intelligence" bullshit; didn't read but I fully endorse the initiative.   @rina @holothuroid take the URL for any recipe on the web, and type ‘cooked.wiki/‘ in front of it @rina @holothuroid this is far more concise than my tmuptftfr;dc: too many useless pages to find the fucking recipe; didn't cook.  @holothuroid vm;dl - voice message; didnt listen or tl;dl - too Long didnt listen For the 5 minute versions     @holothuroid A commenter MAY reply to a post it determines (by an implementation-dependent mechanism) to most likely be AI generated with the UTF-8 string "ai;dr". Posters conclusively found to be misrepresenting AI generated content as human written SHALL be cast into the abyss of despair from whence none may return.  @ids1024 The response string MAY be terminated with a sequence of randomly or probabilistically selected words, separated by arbitrary non-zero amounts of whitespace. The number of words in the sequence and the language of the words is deliberately left undefined within this specification. If such words are appended to the response string, then all such used words SHOULD be valid words in the same natural language. Whitespace after the last word of the sequence SHOULD be avoided. suw;dr @holothuroid I’d propose lw;dr for “login wall, didn’t read”. People often share links to Instagram, Facebook, X, etc. but if you’re not on that service you get hit with a login wall. For these platforms I would add sf;dr  @holothuroid Someday I'm going to write a browser extension that just hides links to pay-walled sites.  @holothuroid is there room for a standard “dw” for “didn’t watch” with respect to video content?  @holothuroid But perhaps we need a more general code for font, font size, and style issues.   @robparsons @Steveg58 @holothuroid I'd like to mention insufficient contrast here, too. Although I often see pages/sites that have insufficient contrast *and* too-small fonts at the same time, so yeah, maybe a general "unreadable design" thing might be best. @kagan @Steveg58 @holothuroid yes, that is true. The number of people who think light grey font on white background is asthetic....e @robparsons @Steveg58 @holothuroid I feel like design schools, or art schools, or *someplace*, are making a concerted effort to teach designers that contrast is evil and they should avoid it wherever possible. I don't know how else to account for the prevalence of washed-out, low-contrast design all over the place. @kagan @Steveg58 @holothuroid my immediate reaction is the old saying - don't attribute to malice that which can be adequately accounted for by incompetence. In my experience that's very rarely wrong. I suspect if there is a cause, it's more likely to be design schools not foregrounding user experience, thus failing to teach students to take into account what their customers want and need. @holothuroid    yt;dw - YouTube; didn't watch   @holothuroid GB;dr For when they serve up about a gigabyte of crap when the bit I wanted is <1k of text.   We can at the very least formalise it as an RFC. I suggest something like: "Proposed Standard Abbreviations for Not Following References" as the title.   nyt;dr NY Times; didn’t read [I do love AI;dr, btw]    @holothuroid it’s  I need a standard for "video with what could have been a paragraph of plain text; didn't watch".
    @holothuroid @JoshJers how will this expansion interact with the dw extension, as in tl;dw? @holothuroid fb;ayfkm? - Facebook; are you fucking kidding me? You might be referring to the tl;dr as a the prefix to a synopsis? tl;dr is also used a reply that one is unwilling to engage with the content because it is too long.  @holothuroid This is infinitely extensible. Other prefixes: rd (Ross Douthat), md (Maureen Dowd), bs (Bret Stephens). I’d like to suggest a further variant, the “hate-read” postfix ;hr @20002ist I don't know who those people are or what country they hail from. I suppose you could find an asshole for every two letter combination though.  @gigantos That's one use yes. Another is signaling that you decline to engage with the content because length. (Though it's sometimes bad formatting rather.) This is what I had in mind. And honestly I didn't think much about the joke nor assumed it would blow up so.  gd;lp - got distracted, lost place   @holothuroid@rollenspiel.social @holothuroid I propose an extension when sharing links, etc.  @holothuroid@rollenspiel.social @holothuroid Ooh! How about emfseo;dr excessive machinations for search engine optimization; didn't read. @holothuroid ut;dr: unreadable text; didn't read  @holothuroid I'd like to suggest ic;dr for invasive cookies and general lack of respect for gdpr 😬    sp;dts - shitpost; didn't take seriously  @holothuroid how about bp;dr (borderline plagearism) br;ca (blatant repost, clicked away) rt;ca (reddit trap)   uh;dr – unexplained hyperlink; didn't read gas(br);dr – gratuitous autobiographical story (before recipe); didn't read nt;dr – no transcript; didn't read it;dr – illegible typography; didn't read  @holothuroid fo;dr: fuck off, didn't read. For example when A.G. Sulzberger has written an op-ed (in WaPo of all places, like he needs to shop for a venue!) on the risks of putting his thumb on the scale. @holothuroid@rollenspiel.social And we can add chaining.  @holothuroid I endorse this proposal under the condition that it is modified in the following way: |
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If I may add:
tmp;dr - too many popups; didn't read