For what it's worth, I saw some comments elsewhere on LJ that were of the form "Oh. Dear. I read the first three paragraphs and stopped." Some of them may even have commented on those first three paragraphs: not certain, but possible. If that comment had been from someone I knew and had liked, I would probably ask him whether he'd read the whole thing before commenting. (If it was one of hundreds whose handles I vaguely knew, probably not.)