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The only potential issue here is that laconics can be really misleading. This would work if we can keep up with fixing them.
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If you use Chrome, there is an addon
that shows a laconic on hovering.
It does help to get a good first idea about what a trope entails.
The Other Wiki has it, and I think it's pretty nice to get a preview of what's in the link, and to see if something is too squickish for you to read. It could also help for people like me who are using other browsers such as Firefox.
Rock'n'roll never dies!
If colored links (for those who remember them) were too expensive, I'd expect tooltips on each link to be even more taxing (unless they're on-demand, maybe).
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
Currently, when hovering over a link to a trope page, only the link itself is shown, and the only meaningful information it contains is the trope name, which is not always perfectly descriptive and is often redundant anyways (when the article is linked via a pure Wiki Word). If the laconic description of the trope was being shown alongside that, it would alleviate the frustration of having to (sometimes slowly) load a full new page just to see what the discussion is about. It can be a personal preference setting, especially if it would slow down too much the hover-over text appearing.