You aren't good at your job. You think basic tenets of communication equate to being a doormat.

Sounds like you aren't making a contribution if your philosophy is intentional inefficiency. Perhaps you're confusing respect with relief you weren't complete dead weight.

And keep the job you want by doing it well, not being useless to everyone around you.

I doubt that you don't have promotion problems, but at least you're consistent.

You rude to people like this in real life, too? This might explain your promotion struggles.

That's a good approach, too. I'll usually do that with more complex stuff as well.

Weird, I've gotten many promotions this way. But I work for a decent company, so there's that.

I wish that were true, but the amount of times I've had only the very first question answered when writing in short, 3 sentence emails without pointing out there was more than one question is astounding.

I suppose it depends on your end goal. If you're in a position you have no ambition to move up from and you're not concerned about your reputation, then sure. If you want to progress, maybe reconsider.