Mm, that (tl - dr)

[Madame Adequate]

I noticed, I was just winding you up! I doubt Tavrobel did though.

[Mirage]

Depends on how it's written. A long text with nice use of punctuation, line breaks and paragraphs are more likely to be read by me than a shorter text that has none of the above.

[Peegee]

I know 7 paragraphs is too much, unless it's written by somebody I respect. Otherwise it's usually incoherent, irrelevant data which could be summed out in one or two sentences.

tl<b></b>;dr is probably prevalent in forums because there's a belief that more = better. Hell I've wrote too much in this post.

[Tavrobel]

I noticed, I was just winding you up! I doubt Tavrobel did though.

... I can't read or write.