>>4322547"Gatekeeping" is all about being rude and obnoxious to newcomers. While you could argue that it works in order to deter people with low commitment from a community, it comes with the heavy downside of making the community as a whole unpleasant and hostile to its dedicated members AND advertize itself as inviting to low-commitment newcomers that are also trolls.
This is how 4chinz went to shit anyways; First it was people calling eachother fags for laughs, and now it's a cesspool of edgy misanthropes who dont value even human life