When you've read other people writing things like this (or "No. You just didn't understand it. Perhaps re-read." or "I am not someone in thrall to the prevalent reality distortion field") online, how have you felt about it? I can't believe that you have this little skill in thinking about how others might perceive your writing, so I'm led to conclude that you haven't really tried it.

Imagine an LW reader whose opinion you actually care about enough to write for them. If there is no such reader, then there is no point in you writing here, and you should stop, so that might be the end of the exercise. However, let's suppose you do imagine them. Let's further suppose that they are not already convinced of something you'd like to tell them about - again, if all the people you want to convince are already convinced then your keystrokes are wasted. Now imagine them reading comments like this or the other one I quoted above. What impact do you imagine them having on this reader?

Think more generally about your target audience, and how you want to come across to them; try to put yourself in their shoes. Give it five minutes by the clock.

I'm not optimistic that you'll take my advice on this one - in fact I expect I'm going to get another rude and dismissive response, though you might take the wrong turn of simply trying to justify your responses rather than addressing what I'm asking - but I wanted to try to persuade you, because if it works it could lead to a big increase in the usefulness of your contributions.