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<blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 7895950" data-attributes="member: 1">You're not using the term the same way as everybody else. &quot;Gatekeeping&quot; in this context has developed a more specific colloquial meaning in recent years, mainly developed in social media, Twitter in particular. It doesn't include reasonable rules, spam blocking, deciding who fits well with your own group, or any of the other things you have applied it to in this thread. It's not just a mere filter.It, in this context, relates to the (attempted) exclusion of a demographic as part of the group by virtue of its perceived 'expertise' or 'right to belong' - in this specific case, being &quot;you don't belong in this group because you watch D&amp;D and [I assume] don't play it&quot;. It's about deciding who has 'earned' the admission criteria.General discrimination is another thing, and can overlap, but it's not generally what we're talking about here. The main overlap there is that subset which equates women with being unqualified to be a group member, which is both discrimination and gatekeeping; there's also a bunch with age, with gatekeeping in one direction &quot;you're a newbie and haven't earned your stripes and don't know what real D&amp;D is&quot; and discrimination in the other &quot;you're middle aged; your opinion is not wanted&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Morrus, post: 7895950, member: 1"] You're not using the term the same way as everybody else. "Gatekeeping" in this context has developed a more specific colloquial meaning in recent years, mainly developed in social media, Twitter in particular. It doesn't include reasonable rules, spam blocking, deciding who fits well with your own group, or any of the other things you have applied it to in this thread. It's not just a mere filter. It, in this context, relates to the (attempted) exclusion of a demographic as part of the group by virtue of its perceived 'expertise' or 'right to belong' - in this specific case, being "you don't belong in this group because you watch D&D and [I assume] don't play it". It's about deciding who has 'earned' the admission criteria. General discrimination is another thing, and can overlap, but it's not generally what we're talking about here. The main overlap there is that subset which equates women with being unqualified to be a group member, which is both discrimination [I]and[/I] gatekeeping; there's also a bunch with age, with gatekeeping in one direction "you're a newbie and haven't earned your stripes and don't know what [I]real[/I] D&D is" and discrimination in the other "you're middle aged; your opinion is not wanted". [/QUOTE]

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