[helicalspiral]

the article is literally going through the technical definition of passive voice

[arduanika]

Sure, but he is packaging it in this superior snark. He is aggressively dismissing the very real thing that people actually mean when they say "avoid passive voice". A technical explainer on its own would be fine, but at least to my ears, this piece reads as narrow-minded and bitter.

[tptacek]

Their snark sounds superior because they are superior. It's Language Log.