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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9513206" data-attributes="member: 18">I love that you think I hate YA given the amount of YA I read!You seem to adopting a position that if you criticise something at all, that's &quot;gatekeeping&quot;, and we &quot;don't need more of it&quot; (funny, given how much you, specifically, criticise things, including D&amp;D). Which is itself something we &quot;don't need more of&quot;, frankly.Criticism by people who actually understand what they're talking about and are engaged with it shouldn't be lazily dismissed as being the same as ill-informed &quot;X sux&quot; stuff.Again, you're actually gatekeeping here. You're saying I'm not allowed to criticise stuff, and the community doesn't need people criticising stuff. That's genuine gatekeeping.I actually have played thousand and thousands of hours of Warcraft. I have max-level characters in the current expansion, but according to you, I'm what, not allowed to criticise it because some dingbat who has never played it or last played in briefly in 2006 might say something dumb about it? Care to back that up?I've watched an awful lot of anime recently, including most of the big hits, but according to you I'm not allowed to criticise it because you're determined &quot;this community&quot; doesn't need it, on the apparent grounds that some know-nothing grog rants about characters &quot;looking anime&quot; or whatever?I'm apparently not allowed to critique Sanderson, despite having read 10 of his novels, and literally 5000+ pages of his work (maybe closer to 10,000), because you think what, I haven't read enough? If so that is literally gatekeeping.I think the real problem here is you're not engaging with what you read here, you're knee-jerk reacting to any criticism of certain things, no matter how well-informed. Imho you should make more of an effort to separate informed criticism from mindless reactionary sentiment, lest you end up engaging in the latter yourself.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9513206, member: 18"] I love that you think I hate YA given the amount of YA I read! You seem to adopting a position that if you criticise something at all, that's "gatekeeping", and we "don't need more of it" (funny, given how much you, specifically, criticise things, including D&D). Which is itself something we "don't need more of", frankly. Criticism by people who actually understand what they're talking about and are engaged with it shouldn't be lazily dismissed as being the same as ill-informed "X sux" stuff. Again, you're [B]actually gatekeeping[/B] here. You're saying I'm not allowed to criticise stuff, and the community doesn't need people criticising stuff. That's [B]genuine gatekeeping[/B]. I actually have played thousand and thousands of hours of Warcraft. I have max-level characters in the current expansion, but according to you, I'm what, not allowed to criticise it because some dingbat who has never played it or last played in briefly in 2006 might say something dumb about it? Care to back that up? I've watched an awful lot of anime recently, including most of the big hits, but according to you I'm not allowed to criticise it because you're determined "this community" doesn't need it, on the apparent grounds that some know-nothing grog rants about characters "looking anime" or whatever? I'm apparently not allowed to critique Sanderson, despite having read 10 of his novels, and literally 5000+ pages of his work (maybe closer to 10,000), because you think what, I haven't read enough? If so that is [B]literally gatekeeping[/B]. I think the real problem here is you're not engaging with what you read here, you're knee-jerk reacting to any criticism of certain things, no matter how well-informed. Imho you should make more of an effort to separate informed criticism from mindless reactionary sentiment, lest you end up engaging in the latter yourself. [/QUOTE]

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