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The frequent bolding did make it hard to read. Also, changes in fonts like this are frequently a sign of crankiness so they likely bring up negative associations. People may also be downvoting for the post being in Main rather than Discussion. It is on the borderline of which of those one might reasonably put it- I suspect that the lack of sources/citations may push it more into the Discussion section.
We have a "No Original Research" rule?
We have a rule that discounts anecdotal evidence appropriately.
Most posts in the sequences don't have any citations. A lot of the sequences look like original research to me, but I don't know all the research that has been done, so I might be wrong.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/o4/leave_a_line_of_retreat/
http://lesswrong.com/lw/od/37_ways_that_words_can_be_wrong/
37 ways that words can be wrong is a sort of meta-post that is meant to tie together other posts, so I wouldn't use it as an example unless you're implying that all of them go uncited or completely unresearched.
Yes, I daresay that the expected quality of mainspace posts is substantially higher than some of the posts in the Sequences. And that's ok.
I disagree; I think our standards are too high for main. If we lowered our standards maybe main would actually see activity. When people see posts like this getting downvoted they learn that Less Wrong probably doesn't want to read what they write. Even if the stuff they want to write is pretty good.