<p>Tarhunt - </p>
<p>You raise an excellent point about the use of qualifying phrases in traditional prose, but I think (aka in my opinion 
) that those rules don’t (or at least shouldn’t) apply to internet communication. Again, this is just my opinion, but I was a high school classroom teacher (social studies as well as drama) for 7 years and graded many many mannnnnnnny essays (shudder). I think that the internet is such a powerful communication tool (in it’s immediacy and the breadth of people it reaches) that everything has greater impact than print material and can easily be viewed as “factually” authoritative when in fact they ARE just opinions, regardless of how passionately or authoritatively they’re stated. The qualifying phrases help keep that in perspective for both writer and reader.</p>
<p>We find an interesting parallel to this in my medical voice work, where patients come in having googled things like “diaphragmatic breathing” or “nodes” (both of which are layman’s terms and therefore not likely to yield the most scientifically-supported information). These patients will tell us the “facts” that they have read, which are more often than not at least partially incorrect. But of course the websites they have looked at present all information as “fact.”</p>
<p>Food for thought…</p>