I never thought I'd see the day that Maddox was on the front page of HN. With the redditization now complete pg should bring back the display of the comment scores since it obviously didn't help preserve whatever it was that he was trying to preserve.
Regardless of what you think of him and his articles this one simply deserves to be here. It makes a lot of sense and IMO he hit the nail on the head with what he is proposing.
It's not productive to discriminate against someone simply because he is known to publish controversial stuff.