I mean he also did Mop Theory which is straight up advocacy for gatekeeping and shunning newcomers
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narrator: it's not
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I think you misunderstand the piece and I am in particular afeared that you're pattern matching him into a stupid culture war role

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what if I'm doing that but also it is the case
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playing to win is the primary failure mode here
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the real victory is a joyful, engaged community that appreciates the manifold virtues of my dilznick
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I don't think it's advocacy for gatekeeping, but rather a description of why gatekeeping is an impulse
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I believe gatekeeping is good and mop theory is bad.
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I think that it depends on precise definition of "gatekeeping". I mean, technically a lot of reasonable positions pertaining to keeping incompetent, aggressively un-educatable or outright dangerous people are "mild gatekeeping"
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