The problem is that we wouldn't be having this discussion if the original reply was "Play poker, hack hardware, play with my cat". Short comments don't usually

The problem is that we wouldn't be having this discussion if the original reply was "Play poker, hack hardware, play with my cat". Short comments don't usually get downvoted just by virtue of their length. However, the length of the comment seems to be a signal of quality and that's why we get blasted with walls of text when the author could have said it just as well in a sentence or two.