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I listen to a variety of metal. If most of your song is incomprehensible screaming or growling (in any genre, for that matter), I’m not interested in that song.
And even if you do listen to death/black metal, you can still get crap from some people if it’s not a certain sub-genre. It’s just music, let me listen in peace, I don’t need a lecture.
“Yeah, I like tons of metal bands! …just not sure which ones as I can’t read any of their names.”
As an older metalhead, this makes me a bit sad, but I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised. The metal scene I joined in the early 90s did have its tolerance problems specifically against other music genres, but I never knew it as particularly gatekeepy, at least the circles I socialised with and the concerts and festivals I went to. There were some people who though you weren’t a real metal fan if you didn’t exclusively listen to metal, but they were a minority. Nobody had a problem with me not particularly liking Slayer or Motörhead, and there was no requirement to have long hair and be covered in leather and/or band patches.
I remember when metalheads would not shut the fuck up about Justin Bieber back in the 2010s. They were obsessed with hating him.
If it makes you feel better, it’s mostly just loud people on the internet. I’ve never really seen any gatekeeping behavior at any of the many shows I’ve been to.
you have to have the metal uniform and some insignia, else you are out.
Gardeners.
So many gates to maintain.I guess ranchers too. Except they gatekeep the old fashion way as well.
Reddit.
Unless it’s completely changed since the APIpocalypse, I’m going to say wrong criticism, right target. It’s a big place, only some parts of which gatekeep much.
Yeah, Reddit seems like it does the exact OPPOSITE of gatekeeping. It’s progressively lowering the barrier to entry to attract new people.
Before I signed up, it was very much “The narwhal bacons at midnight”, with people needing to understand the inside jokes and references, Reddiquette, and other “soft skill” kind of stuff to get upvotes.
I left with the API situation, but even by then, it was nearly mainstream. “Normal people” would tell people about things they saw on Reddit. Of course, nobody would share their username with anyone else. (Nor should they! Lol)
Even since then, I’m occasionally seeing Reddit screenshots from people whose phones I imagined never opened much else aside from messaging apps, image/video-based social media, and their camera app, lol
The guys running /Politics and /WorldNews will ban people if they don’t endorse israel committing Genocide.
Also r/Israel (for obvious reasons). It’s sad, especially considering that so many people would benefit if the Jews and Muslims were living together in harmony. Which we don’t see due to the apartheid regime that is Israel.
Sheepdog trials. Though mostly it’s about making things go through the gates.
I don’t even know why they have trials, and the jury isn’t even selected from their peers. Every one of those dogs looks guilty to me.
Vegan groups. You will toe the party line comrade! And yes, shellfish are intelligent animals with a rich social and emotional life.
“But they don’t have the nerve types and brain structures to feel pain as we do…”
“HERETIC!”
Who hasn’t?
If they have no ego, why are they shellfish?
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On the flip side, the ukulele community is so open and friendly, helped me stick with a hobby I sucked at to begin with, and now I’ve released actual music!
“If someone tries to steal your ukelele, let them take it!”
Just whatever makes sense
Any “hardcore full loot pvp MMORPG”
North Korea.
I grew up in a very conservative Catholic community. Imagine a group where JD Vance and Harrison Butker would be considered mild. If a new person didn’t show up in the right kind of clothes and faux humility, people would make a snap judgement and start gossiping. If the new person were wealthy or had a lot of children (8+) or were in a medical field, they would probably be ok. The single parent mom with two kids who dared to send one to public school for better STEM classes? Lol, she had no chance.
There was a “welcome wagon” type group who were supposed to invite new people to coffee and doughnuts with the congregation in the basement after services. I watched the one invite one family and offer a handshake, visibly retracted the hand to skip over Single Mom, and then extend an invitation to the next family. Ice cold.
There was a “welcome wagon” type group who were supposed to invite new people to coffee and doughnuts with the congregation in the basement after services. I watched the one invite one family and offer a handshake, visibly retracted the hand to skip over Single Mom, and then extend an invitation to the next family. Ice cold.
Just like Jesus would have wanted eh
Jesus would understand, because they’re special
TERFs
Gatekeep so hard they require DNA tests
The fish doorbell folks.
Archlinux
Not all of Arch Land is a barren wasteland of unfriendlyness. There is a small village called EndeavourOS that … keeps the gate wide open … or so. Younhopefully get what I mean. They are nice people.
