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>getting downvoted for high-effort content

The notion of "high-effort" is harmful because it promotes utter sophistry. Consider high-brow attacks on Damore by a few scientists with fancy job descriptions (especially that ridiculous Erin Giglio thing): it's hard to deny that they were putting in a considerable effort writing 10.000+ word illustrated screeds, signaling their superior intelligence and competence, and to a leftist reader those seemed to be good faith attempts to debunk an "anti-scientific sexist ideology"; how unfortunate that they never made a dent in any of his object-level claims, either deliberately misrepresenting the sources or the man himself. There's plenty of that crap coming from the left on r/SSC, so it's no wonder that they get mocked.

The best thing about New Atheism, however pathetically it ended, was intolerance of bullshit. Stupid bullshit, pretentious bullshit, it didn't matter. This was also the best thing that rat community inherited from it. You could say that the entire cognitive toolbox of rationalists was fine-tuned to take apart non-obvious bullshit. This leaves the leftists with no weapons whatsoever; no amount of effort can improve their bullshit enough for it to become truth, so they can only signal their hatred with "yikes", "eyrolls" or victim narratives, depending on specific in-group.

Sadly, that'll likely be the end of the subreddit.