An unfortunate byproduct of the paradigm shift with the internet that allows literally anyone to be an "opinion writer" is that most don't realize that once you blow past 600 words and start heading to 1000+ words, you've lost any potential audience of note.
A common misconception among people expressing their honest personal opinions on the web is, "If people don't agree with my opinion, I'll hammer them with thousands more words, dozens more Pasted clippings, dozens of YouTube video clips and surely after they check all that stuff out, they'll come over to my way of thinking."