When I tell you things like i have been reading this site and overcomingbias for years, that I am neither particularly ignorant, particularly doctrinaire, nor particularly thick, it may well be that I would like better treatment.

You may be none of those things but this post received the appropriate treatment (albeit with more resulting commentary that is desirable).

But it is also information about the emergent behavior of this community towards those who are probably its "hot market."

The people who are the 'hot market' would be turned off by site if it contained many posts like this. Partly because of the low standard of reasoning but mostly because of the petulant whining. We don't want that. We downvote.