Well…I found it to be? One can put as many disclaimers as one wants on something, but Michael Bluth will always be right in being a tad confused as to why there was a dead dove in his fridge.

Yeah, well, only so much you can do. Tone is subjective.

Not really. How much you care about tone is certainly personal, but it's extremely easy to consistently analyze tone and sentiment from written or spoken text. This stuff is not mysterious.

The conversation is about whether the tone is appropriate, not whether it is parseable.

Tone is not subjective? I had no problem with the writing style of the article and wouldn't've even noticed it were it not for this thread. Even after reading the couple of complaints about it, I still prefer it to the endlessly dry, academic monotone that HN promotes.