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It's just a little bit ironic that you can't express your opinion that an internet celebrity is overexposed without name-checking another internet celebrity.

I certainly could.. but then my comment would surely disappear under a wave of downvotes.

Really? The only place I've ever heard of him was on HN and I'm still not sure who he is. If I recall correctly he is a physics popularizer.

He used to be a research physicist in the old days.

Wow, that guy is a pompous ass. His doling out of nerd status is too ridiculous.

For those unfamiliar with Maddox, he is a blogger whose public persona is in fact an over-the-top professional pompous ass. So your observation is spot on, but he does it on purpose.