It means that when you set yourself the task of undermining someone's comment its easier to find the gotchas in a process, than when just doing it casually. "I

It means that when you set yourself the task of undermining someone's comment its easier to find the gotchas in a process, than when just doing it casually. "Intelligence" in snark-validating environments like this means "successful oneupsmanship", and quotient means "upvotes".