I'd wager that GitHub is one of the biggest publishers of larger-than-bite-sized Markdown documents, and this "selling point" (an argument which I both agree wi

I'd wager that GitHub is one of the biggest publishers of larger-than-bite-sized Markdown documents, and this "selling point" (an argument which I both agree with about [original] Markdown and agree that this is a good property) is pretty much untrue for any given piece you'll find on GitHub. This is thanks to several factors including "GitHub-Flavored Markdown" differing so wildly from the original flavor, and the typical GitHub user just not giving a shit about how the raw form looks—treating it as just another non-WYSIWYG formatting language in the vein of HTML or TeX, since all they're really after most of the time is for their README to work as a substitute for a product landing page.