Is it just me, or has the LW community gone overboard with the "include a TLDR" advice? There's something to be said for clear thesis statements, but there are other perfectly legitimate ways to structure an article, including "begin with an example that hooks your reader's interest" (which is also standard advice, btw), as well as "[here is the thing I am responding to] [response]" (what I used in this article). If the sequences were written today, I suspect the comments would be full of TLDR complaints.