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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kurotowa" data-source="post: 9281555" data-attributes="member: 27957">Well, that's just plain old hipster gatekeeping. Some people want the things they partake of to be limited to a small audience, because it lets them style themselves as different from the witless masses who just follow whatever's popular. These are the people who get upset when a band or author makes it big, because suddenly knowing about them doesn't make you part of the "insider elite". They want to be the ones hoarding the special knowledge and dispensing it to those they deem worth.I'm all too familiar with this attitude, having seen it crop up in just about every field of geek interest I've spent time in. Also from observing my father, who had impossible standards for what was "real Science Fiction" and traded in bootleg concert tapes because he didn't feel like studio recordings captured the "real sound" of the musician.Give me the big tent any day. Not because some marketing executive demanded the product be watered down to appeal to some imagined lowest common denominator, but because it's a high quality product with a wide appeal that brings together people of all backgrounds and interests. That diversity brings far more innovation and fresh creativity than trying to restrict it to a self-appointed elite.</blockquote>