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"Of all the nonsense terms that have popped up in the last decade this one is the most annoying to me because it really just means 'have no standards, don't bother trying to learn how to fit into an established space and drag everyone down to your level'"
"The modern usage of 'gatekeeping' is a corporate psyop. Most of what is labelled as 'gatekeeping' is just public complaints about how shitty things are getting with a product, service, hobby etc. Newbies and casuals eat the slop that gets handed to them because they don't know any better."
"Gatekeeping has immense value when done right. The problem is that the most passionate gatekeepers are often obnoxious, insecure dweebs that are more interested in shilling their supposedly superior taste than actually defending the integrity of a community or scene. Those types only encourage the i"
"as a corollary, i think you should absolutely promote gatekeeping. if you allow poseurs to infest your interests, likely they'll bring with them a deluge of sanitised, pop-friendly versions of the art form you enjoy. your interests lose their identity that way — their purity is managed alone by genu"
"Nobody wants to take pride in the things they participate in anymore. I feel like there once was a time where gatekeeping out of pride was the modus operandi for subculture, wherein there was a level of aspiration all members could look forward to, and if you didn't meet those expectations, you woul"