I mean, Ver kinda has a point in that you can be overly-defensive. If Rally wrote 'lol libtards' and I wrote an essay you could say I was overreacting. But I wrote around the same amount of text in response so that I could engage most of what he said.
Out of curiosity, I pasted our posts into
https://wordcounttools.com . I wrote 178 words in response to Rally's 284. Ver has now written 202 in response... so, uh... that might have backfired a little.