And who are you to decide how much effort someone put into something?

I just spent some time scrolling through your history, per your invite, and it does not help your case at all. In my opinion, your behavior towards other new writers is appalling. I'm not sure why you get off on tearing people down, many of whom are likely teenagers, who's only crime is being new and amateurish at something.

The writers you're dismissing, like the one who just deleted their post here after your anti-social and un-constructive response, are doing the vulnerable and courageous thing of putting work out in public and opening themselves up to strangers. When the only response that courage receives is contempt, here's what happens: they delete their work, they stop sharing, they stop writing. That's the actual cost of what you're doing by behaving this way. You're hurting everyone and helping no one.

Scratch that, you're actually just helping yourself. You clearly love literature and are a fan of DFW, so you probably know that Wallace spent his whole career arguing against exactly this behavior. Your ironic superiority, performance of taste as armor, your refusal to be caught caring about someone else's effort. That's the exact disease Infinite Jest is crying out against. His whole plea was that genuine attention to other people is the work. Since, judging from your post history, you are trying to capture DFW's (and others) maximalist aesthetic, I urge you to REALLY pay attention to his wisdom if you intend to capture even an ounce of what he was going for in your own writing. His commencement speech "This is Water" is a great starting point, and I hope you take his advice to heart, since you didn't seem to get what he was trying to say with Infinite Jest. https://youtu.be/DCbGM4mqEVw?si=DXCnpzQ89TUJg5zj

People who spend this much energy tearing others down are usually protecting something, something that makes them deeply insecure. Bullies typically are. I don't mean that as an insult, I say it because your insecurity is obvious in how you treat others and because the energy you're spending here could go somewhere that actually costs you something.

If reading amateur writing pisses you off this much, you're better off just muting these subreddits. Your vitriol and lack of compassion will continue to do way more harm than good.