>Some of us enjoy reading and writing like this. [...] Background and personal touch are often entertaining. Here's my guess on why the article's slow build u

>Some of us enjoy reading and writing like this. [...] Background and personal touch are often entertaining. Here's my guess on why the article's slow build up irrated many readers: It was the apocalyptic armageddon title and then the first sentence the reader sees is, "I finished high school in 1995." If the title is bombastic or provocative, your readers are going to want the Inverted Pyramid[1]. Had the author titled it something more toned down like, "Coming to grips with LHC's lack of new particle discoveries" ... the immediate juxtaposition of "I finished high school in 1995" wouldn't have been such a letdown. The phrase "coming to grips" sets up the reader to sit back and relax for a "timeline". Put another way, if the writer puts a promising title but buries the reader with personal details, it is often seen as a self-indulgent style of writing that does not respect the readers' time. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid