'Actually this is a really smart move by Elon' (everyone here seems to be on first-name terms with him) Except the majority of the comments so far imply that's

'Actually this is a really smart move by Elon' (everyone here seems to be on first-name terms with him) Except the majority of the comments so far imply that's it's actually not a good move. Also, no one in the thread has yet mentioned him by first name (there are only 3 occurrences of 'Elon' in this thread with 2 being by full name, and then your hypothetical HN commenter being the only that uses it alone)