Poll: when making a new substantive top-level post, what kinds of summary are acceptable?
This is a checkbox poll, and therefore votes for multiple options may be entered—for each option, a separate karma balance will be offered. In the event that some important option is immediately noticed to be missing, another poster may offer an option-karma balance pair without destroying the poll.
Edit: Elaborating in light of the downvote—if there exists some large fraction which think it isn’t important enough to imply a policy on, then that will be reflected by the percentage differences between the options growing small.
Poll: when making a new substantive top-level post, what kinds of summary are acceptable?
This is a checkbox poll, and therefore votes for multiple options may be entered—for each option, a separate karma balance will be offered. In the event that some important option is immediately noticed to be missing, another poster may offer an option-karma balance pair without destroying the poll.
Formal abstract, consisting of one or a few paragraphs, indented.
Karma balance.
Karma balance to paragraph abstract.
Précis, consisting of one or two sentences, italics.
Karma balance.
Karma balance to sentence précis.
“tl;dr” summary, indicated by “tl;dr” abbreviation.
Karma balance.
Karma balance to tl;dr.
No summary.
Karma balance.
Karma balance to no summary.
If I think style choices are best left up to the poster I should vote for all the options?
Yes.
Edit: Elaborating in light of the downvote—if there exists some large fraction which think it isn’t important enough to imply a policy on, then that will be reflected by the percentage differences between the options growing small.