All you have to do is look at the verbosity of some of the comments in here to understand why.

I have no idea what you mean with that?

Not verbose: "The guy uses lots of words to sound smart"

Verbose: "In an egregious attempt to elevate his self-worth, he injects his exchanges with an innumerable avalanche of superfluous idioms and turns of phrase to explain what otherwise would be simple statements capable of understanding by even groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise."

Oh yeah, sometimes people confuse length with ... all sorts of things.

Actually, I used to think that in order for a weblog post to be worth it, it has to be "of substance", and thus "of length". Clearly those are not the same, but luckily I have corrected my thinking in this regard :-)

He probably marvels (so do I) at the ability of some commenters on here to write walls of text. I presume that these reach only a very narrow audience. I wonder how many people actually, properly read those long comments.