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Weird how hastily dashed off comments and posts frequently end up making more sense to more people than ones you put a lot of thought into.
One explanation that leaps to mind for this would be inferential distance. More time spent composing it could mean you are following more inferential links, some of which are unfamiliar or have a weaker relationship in the mind of the audience. Quickly made posts would tend to have shorter chains of reasoning, hence seem immediately stronger.
That sounds a bit just-so. Looking back through my comments, the "important" ones seem to have ended up grammatically contorted by the quest for robust precision.
Answer: work out how to write better.
Sure, but points involving longer inferential chains would be harder to write as succinctly. It could be that the problem isn't writing skill, just the thoughts aren't as easy to write.