Dieterrams, thank you. What you said is exactly right. The reason the comment form is the way it is is because I could not find the right css code to change it, as the site is a WP theme buried in code.

However, this is completely irrelevant to the idea in the article and does not take any merit off of it whatsoever. If you cannot judge an idea for the idea itself, what chance do you have at learning anything from anything you read?