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Subject: Thread Summary Option

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It'd work similarly like the Article Summary (or whatever it's called) works in Groups, only you could easily view it by hovering over the thread title.

Also, @TGP, for some threads the title might work, but for 1000-2000+ word threads, there's so many ideas in there that cramming it into the title looks messy.

  • 10.09.2012 12:50 PM PDT

Like a "smart" TL;DR? I like it.

  • 10.09.2012 6:08 PM PDT
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I'm not so good with advice...Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?

Just kinda seems like a tl;dr for the lazy people.

  • 10.09.2012 11:31 PM PDT

What if a substring of the text were displayed when hovering over the title?

  • 10.10.2012 2:42 AM PDT

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Posted by: dazarobbo
What if a substring of the text were displayed when hovering over the title?
How does one, or, the system decide where that substring begins and ends? (I could very well be totally misunderstanding the word "substring". If so, my apologies.)

  • 10.10.2012 3:17 AM PDT

Just based on some predefined indexes.

ie. given some text, take the characters between indexes 0 and 140 and use them as the summary text.

If you look at the search results for a search on Google, you can see they do the same thing (note how the ellipsis is used to show the summary is only a portion of the full text as well).

  • 10.10.2012 6:45 AM PDT
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Posted by: Great_Pretender
The title is the summary of the thread.

That's how I look at it as well.

  • 10.10.2012 7:22 AM PDT

“Oh, it’s a little bit of everything, it’s the mountains, it’s the fog, it’s the news at six o’clock, it’s the death of my first dog, it’s the angels up above me, it’s the song that they don’t sing, It’s a little bit of everything.”
- Dawes, A little bit of everything

TL;RS

Too long; read summary.

  • 10.10.2012 7:54 AM PDT

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Posted by: dazarobbo
Just based on some predefined indexes.

ie. given some text, take the characters between indexes 0 and 140 and use them as the summary text.

If you look at the search results for a search on Google, you can see they do the same thing (note how the ellipsis is used to show the summary is only a portion of the full text as well).
So does the author of the thread get to choose which 1-140 character excerpt is taken out? If it's somehow automated, how does the system know what to pull? What if the author goes off on a diatribe/metaphor about how BNet is about Clowns and the entire excerpt is about Clowns and therefore irrelevant to the rest of the piece? Undoubtedly something like that would be recognized as "unique" by whatever script (or whatever they're called when they're run by the sites administrator and not a user), and yet would be totally irrelevant to the overall post.

Then, if you go the route of letting users pick, wouldn't they end up just writing their own summary and selecting that part of their post anyway, thus making it a convoluted version of what I'm suggesting?

  • 10.10.2012 1:41 PM PDT

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