On (2), we’ve considered adding a summary field in the editor, but I don’t think we’d make it mandatory unless we did so for a much larger character count. Whether or not we eventually implement that, I encourage anyone reading this to include summaries in their long posts!
Thanks for providing the Elsevier link—I could imagine us linking to that as an example of how one might compose a summary.
On (2), we’ve considered adding a summary field in the editor, but I don’t think we’d make it mandatory unless we did so for a much larger character count. Whether or not we eventually implement that, I encourage anyone reading this to include summaries in their long posts!
Thanks for providing the Elsevier link—I could imagine us linking to that as an example of how one might compose a summary.