I don't find this article deeply offensive or anything but agree it's not that interesting in practice (the concept is interesting) and this particular source is a low quality compilation (e.g. little personal contribution, you have to follow several links deep to find original sources).

However, I'd really like to see pg try article downvoting for a short period like the "no scores on comments" experiment. Ideally, without affecting karma negatively (so a -1 article has a 0 effect on karma). In an ideal world there could be a page that still worked for those who wanted to ignore karma downvotes and view the site as-is, but I'm not sure on pg's database structure.