Encourage people to write a tl;dr by default

[NunoSempere]

How can we encourage people to include a 75 word Tl;dr: in every post? 75 words seems to be what is visible in the preview pane when hovering over the title of a post.
Perhaps after hitting submit, people could be prompted if they wanted to add a Tl;dr to the top of the post.

Taken from: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/hD9MF4EDrbxfLgRkm/haukehillebrandt-s-shortform?commentId=QW2AvphvagRuEZ9zk

For searching: summary

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[Raemon]

Note that the Custom Highlight is a tool that was aiming to be this. It's currently available only to admins. I don't know if there was a particular reason not to expose it to users (at the time the LW disagreed over whether it was a good idea, and as a compromise we shipped it as an admin-only feature)

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➤ JP commented:

NB: in my vision of this feature it would be more of a nudge towards authors to write a summary, and would appear on the post page. Parties interested in developing should reach out for some docs that were written about this feature as part of a trial task.

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➤ ben.west commented:

Mentioned again by Lizka/Yonatan here: https://cea-core.slack.com/archives/CB5D60VSB/p1659298768762849 ( https://cea-core.slack.com/archives/CB5D60VSB/p1659298768762849 )

Yonatan suggests 2 ideas:

1. Simply pre-populate Forum draft pages with "TL;DR" to prompt people to write summaries. --- I think this is a decent idea, but would be curious for @jp ( https://cea-core.slack.com/team/U6VV4MH8C )’s and other people's takes.
2. Do this more extensively: write "TL;DR: [Writing a TL;DR ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TL;DR ) can help readers decide whether they should read the post]" and also add a template section header, like "Section title [Section titles can help readers skip to what's relevant to them, and make the post more skimmable."

I think one thing he likes about this is that it requires little developer time. Thoughts?

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➤ JP Addison commented:

I think it only makes sense for long posts to have TL;DRs. I'd be more excited about something that reacted intelligently to length.