This is a well informed post, read it all or don't read it.

I didn't read it. That's the dr part of tldr. Just informing OP that if it was shorter, more concise, that I might have read it. Instead, he put a lot of work into a post I scrolled (and scrolled... and scrolled.... and scrolled) past. I'm sure I'm not the only one. Good for those that did, but they are fewer than they could have been. If I want people to eat my donuts I'm going to make them tasty and affordable. If I want people to read my posts I'm going to make them worth the appropriate amount of time. Especially since I'm writing to readers that have never read anything from me, most likely. If Mark Twain wrote a book on the forums I'd probably read it. A random I don't know? Not wasting my time.