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<blockquote data-quote="Beleriphon" data-source="post: 7897151" data-attributes="member: 27847"><p>I'd point again, I can't remember if it was this threat or not, but the gatekeeper is typically a self appointed position.</p><p></p><p>For example, lets say I take it upon myself to keep EN World from those weirdos that like the new <em>Deep Babylon Galactica 12: Trek Wars RPG</em>, because really eff EKG for getting a license when East Side Playtime had the best system. If I pop up in threads where that gets mentioned and I say its a dumb RPG for dumb babies and frame everything about how narrative games screw with the player agency and whatever stupid crap I'm claimin, I'm gatekeeping.</p><p></p><p>Despite the fact that I'm framing what I post as "helpful" advice, and calling out "not true" DBGTW RPG fans for being not real fans, nobody asked me to do that. And I think that's a keep component of this whole thing, not that minimum standards and behaviour are bad but self appointed moral guardians of D&D are taking it upon themselves to determine what counts for D&D and who gets to talk about it and where they get to talk about it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Beleriphon, post: 7897151, member: 27847"] I'd point again, I can't remember if it was this threat or not, but the gatekeeper is typically a self appointed position. For example, lets say I take it upon myself to keep EN World from those weirdos that like the new [I]Deep Babylon Galactica 12: Trek Wars RPG[/I], because really eff EKG for getting a license when East Side Playtime had the best system. If I pop up in threads where that gets mentioned and I say its a dumb RPG for dumb babies and frame everything about how narrative games screw with the player agency and whatever stupid crap I'm claimin, I'm gatekeeping. Despite the fact that I'm framing what I post as "helpful" advice, and calling out "not true" DBGTW RPG fans for being not real fans, nobody asked me to do that. And I think that's a keep component of this whole thing, not that minimum standards and behaviour are bad but self appointed moral guardians of D&D are taking it upon themselves to determine what counts for D&D and who gets to talk about it and where they get to talk about it. [/QUOTE]
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