I kinda like the Dragnet approach - just the facts ma'am.  Besides, spending 2 hours writing War and Peace on one post means there are other folks waiting for help that you can't get to.  More power to folks that want to reference specific tax codes, court cases, etc.  But I have also been here long enough to know that probably 98.27278227888666% of the folks posting here want a yup or a nope and don't really care about the details. 

Years ago I worked for a firm that had a main office in the metropolis and we were the Sputnik office in the boonies.  From time to time we would have to call the main office with a tax question.  The tax manager was a smart guy (and a nice guy) but he would ramble on endlessly throwing in all sorts of extra information you didn't really need to know.  When he was done, we would pretty much end the conversation with a "Bruce, was that a yes or a no"?