[ChadNauseam]

> already you can tell this was not written by an intelligent person

I didn’t read the article so you could be right, but I think it’s good to keep in mind that the authors of these articles often read the HN comments. Would you say something like that to them if you were face to face? It may even be true, but it wasn’t kind, nor was it important that it be said. So why say it?

If you had to get this sentiment out, you could have said something like “this article doesn’t give the impression of being written by an intelligent person”, to add a layer of indirection and make it less personal.

[beardyw]

I agree that the article is written in a clumsy way which I found irritating. I don't think that can or should be ascribed to intelligence at all.

The author has created an article which largely hangs together. The elephant in the room is - maybe your maxim is wrong?