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Their own rules forbid low effort posts:

  "No off-topic comments, memes, low-effort comments or jokes"

And yet every single topic is filled with exactly that any time I go to read anything. It can't be beyond their wit to get rid of that stuff.

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That's for the reason already mentioned above: Users who post substance and care about the issues will sooner or later write about something or express an opinion the moderators don't like and get banned. Over time the site is filled with lame jokes, single word comments and cliches.

>"low-effort comments"

I have never heard that term used before, prior to reading this thread...

All I know is that "low-effort comments" -- is going into my 2026 lexicon!

(Admittedly this comment, my comment, the words I have written, above -- is admittedly somewhat of a "low-effort comment" in and of itself(!) A low-effort comment about other low-effort comments (a "meta" low-effort comment, if you will!), but I digress... I guess at times "we all fall short of the glory of the highest of high effort comments"... :-) )

Anyway, "low-effort comment" is a great piece of terminology, isn't it? :-)

It's going into my 2026 lexicon...

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