To bring it around to gaming, it's why I hated and still hate the shift to public servers as the default. I remember when privately owned was the default, and everyone had their own little corner. Skinheads had their shithole, leftists their own, furries their own, etc. Then it all shifted and tried to put all those groups and many more all together. There was a golden age of online gaming, rife with guilds and clans and clubs. And while there were plenty that didn't get along, you could always find a place where you would get along with others.

Those days are dead. And fuck if it isn't missed. All because stupid fucking tourists/entryists weren't happy having to find/make their own little corner. If there has been one thing that I've learned over the years, it's the explicit importance of gatekeeping, and that anyone who bitches about it is either criminally ignorant or deservedly to be put on the other side of the gate.