I stand corrected. "Idiotic" appears in that paragraph, but the actual ad-hom attack is "since he is a flamebaiting troll". He makes no attempt to refute the

I stand corrected. "Idiotic" appears in that paragraph, but the actual ad-hom attack is "since he is a flamebaiting troll". He makes no attempt to refute the person he attacks, and the only point of the attack seems to be that he's not linking to that person, because he doesn't like him. Why bring it up at all? Why not just write your article, refute any arguments that need refuting, and try to sound like somebody worth listening to? That sort of tone gets you voted down to -4 here in comments. It gets your article skipped too.