Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?

Rationalist bloggers, including prominent figures like Scott Alexander and Eliezer Yudkowsky, produce excessively long posts that often prioritize verbosity over genuine thoroughness, confusing length with intellectual rigor. The author argues this community lacks wisdom and discretion, instead favoring counterculture ideas and using sheer volume of text as evidence of worthiness, sometimes reaching flawed conclusions like Gwern's lengthy defense of nicotine's safety.