You're looking at where I told someone not be rude, and you're interpreting that as a personal attack from me? Because I "want to be shitty"? No.
And the mention of community is not a pretense. I want them to recognize that a lot of qualified people don't in fact already know that specific thing. (This is separate from how easy it is to google.)
Also, if you're calling out personal attacks, the way they used the word "disgraceful" is much more personal than anything I said.
That’s just it, you didn’t tell them not to be rude. You hid behind nebulous shunning of “gatekeeping”.
>I want them to recognize that a lot of qualified people don't in fact already know that specific thing
Again, you didn’t actually do that though, did you? Instead you used the term colloquially meant to signal they are creating a “hostile” environment
> Also, if you're calling out personal attacks, the way they used the word "disgraceful"
I’m distinctly not calling out personal attacks, I literally just gave you a thumbs up for doing it instead of taking the virtue signaling finger wagging approach you previously used.
> nebulous
I think you have an incorrect idea of what the word gatekeeping means.
It's not nebulous. It's saying they're doing a bad thing (being rude/synonym) by applying incorrect and artificial criteria about who is in a group (which I quoted).
Both versions of my comment had the same meaning. I wasn't hiding behind anything, just using different phrasing.
And no, my word choice was not to virtue signal. The word fit the situation so I used it.
Calling out “gatekeeping” is virtue signaling at its very core.