[Doctor_Fegg]

I agree - it's the most exasperating thing about what's otherwise a very civilised community.

There's a million different writing styles. No one expects every book in the library to be written to your particular taste. But for any piece of writing submitted to HN, if it deviates from a dispassionate, terse, action-filled style, the tl;dr crowd come out and start ordering people "don't write" like this.