Isn't it irritating when you take the time to write something, and it is a couple of paragraphs and somebody says tl;dr? If you didn't want to read it, why are you commenting?

that can be very irritating

tl;dr? what's that ? :/

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tl%3Bdr

Is that even a legal Acronym for "Too long; didn't read" ?

I'd write a very long response.

Mwa ha ha!

I only do that to people I dislike. People on the internet generally have very short attention spans so I try to keep my posts as short as possible. Otherwise, no one'll give a ***.

Some of my fave posts to read are by posters who write A LOT, I adore long posts... (mostly) I love aff for this reason- Some people put real thought into their posts.  Speaking of, where is Katie? LOVE her posts.
I also did not know what tl dr was - but seems silly to respond to a post if you have not read it.

I tend to skim-read a post to get an idea of what it is about in a few seconds. Then if it seems interesting I will go back and read it properly. Some long posts are just rants and diatribes and don't have any actual content, and some are very interesting.

I've never posted the TLDR comment. I guess the only time I would is if I were having a disagreement with someone who was attempting to "win" the argument with volume rather than facts and logic.

I usually do the same thing

Thanks for the thought. I definitely get the TL;DR comments quite a bit, but once my fingers get going I have a hard time stopping them from moving.  

I'm still around.  

One of my biggest interests is health care, where there has been an opportunity to discuss that issue almost everywhere.  Been spending a lot of time doing that, and attempting to reduce fears associated with that, that aren't factually warranted.

It is people like the individual linked below that likely inspire fear into the hopes of many of his less advantaged citizens.

http://governor.state.tx.us/files/press-...090024.pdf

Interesting that he prints most of his signature.  One doesn't often see that among politicians.

My signature looks like the readings from an EKG.  I proudly should print it too.

But more to topic the TL;DR phenomenon seems to be a recently new phenomenon in society, where attention span is limited to microseconds rather than seconds.

Twitter is the way of the future it appears.

However what it is that society appears to be losing is the capacity for patience and deep thought expressed.

It's hard to do that in 140 Characters, unless one is a poet.

Unfortunately I'm a fact-oet, that can't stop once they get started

But for the benefit of all I will stop now

PS
I have adapted somewhat as I try to keep the paragraphs no longer than three lines long.  Like scene changes in a TV commercial required to retain interest.  Don't get as many TL;DR's with that approach.

And then there is verbal conversation that I never mastered; hard to believe that before TV, computers and radio, people spent a great deal of their time in direct verbal communication.

I can remember going to my older relatives homes with no TV in the living room, just couches and chairs, and the depressing feeling not seeing a TV gave me.  I guess that's why they called it a living room, instead of what I thought was a watching room.

I don't watch TV anymore, but the fingers stay active.

Okay I'll stop now for real. TL;DR signs off.

Why does everything that Katie posts sound interesting?

Katie did make a very good post!

I could definitely provide evidence that many don't, as they let me know it, in a very direct manner.  TL;DR is a polite comment compared to some I have experienced.

People are actually nicer here than they are on some other websites.

However when I first came here, it was interestingly different than it is  now, where apparently a sandstorm of controversy was ongoing at that time.

This website is probably as close to community as it gets online.  Smaller groups of generally the same people talking, make it a community.  Whereas it's pretty chaotic in some of the other larger environments.

Thanks.  And thanks even more for providing one of my favorite songs of all time "Stairway to heaven".

Use to play it on the piano, over and over and over...........

One song that never seemed to get boring.  

And a potentially related reason we may never hear many moderns songs persist into the future for decades, like this one has done, never losing the spark of originality that inspires a nuance of emotion unlike most others.  

I don't think many musicians have the patience for that anymore, where advanced music technology replaces much of the patience and creative effort that was required to create an acoustic based song like that.

Not their fault though, born into a different culture, a different time, different tools and avenues to make music, that results in a significantly different brain for many, through the process described as neuroplasticity.