Agree completely with the insults argument.
There is a Polish saying that one’s are the name someone calls others.
But, let us take as an example nonsensical articles on Medium. Most of us are experts on something, but many write on subjects they do not know.
What should one do when getting a link to the silly article in the Medium Daily Digest? Should we stay silent, not to offend the feelings of the author? Or, should we go with the linguistic equilibristic trying to let the author know that he or she wrote gibberish without saying that straightforward?
Or should we write “gibberish” in the one-word comment? And most of all, would it be an insult?