My experience was even worse. After reading the TL;DR I thought the author's point was vacuous. In order to comment on it responsibly I had to read the whole ar

My experience was even worse. After reading the TL;DR I thought the author's point was vacuous. In order to comment on it responsibly I had to read the whole article, knowing that very likely it wasn't going anywhere. I think if you're worried about how long a post is enough to add a TL;DR, you should probably edit it down.