It was your tone and not your endless blather that I found offputting.
to complain about the length of an article/post is another one of those "modern" trends (TLTR)
while it usually means that someone is trying to explain how something is meant, or to use examples that are easier to understand etc.
In most cases it's a testimony of not being careless and not assuming that it's all clear and easy to understand. further it's often based on the experience that whatever we say, there will be someone who fires back with lame excuses or extreme views and such and the length of explanation tries to prevent as much of it as possible. to call a genuine effort blather is exactly the kind of tone which in one direction is obviously acceptable but not into the other. this is a typical hirarchic attitude.
normal people lie and get punished, those who punish them are mostly the greates liars
generally speaking those who punish and control the public do almost in any aspect, morally, ethically as well as criminally worse than those who they punish.
as to the tone, that's a legit thing to remind each other of moderating the tones because too many of us, but certainly the majority, from time to time gets carried away or is waiting too long to respond, until the fire under the roof got to hot already to hide it, but even that is based on
not trying to first shoot and then think or bicker over every detail.
i recommend to a few oh so nice and mature users here to read and understand more often the meaning of a post and the general direction a poster is pushing and then trying to correct the
flawed part in a respectful manner.
if the tone is off which i can see that it hurts a few, then directly reply and mention that before trying to ridicule the content. this is typical system attitude. ridicule the source and you won't have to deal with the true core of the message.
there were times when people were more often exposed to torture and killings but the modern way to put question marks behind more or less direct accusations and get legally away with it but ultimately damage peoples reputation is not better, somehow even worse because the effects have to be dealt with much longer, at least before things were more final
