> 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

> 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.