krad

The increasing use of the word "community" to refer to a loose and completely unorganized collection of people who happen to have the same interest on the internet is so bizarre to me. And shitty, because it a) creates false standards, as clearly happened here, and b) waters down what "community" actually means. A community is not accidental! Community requires sustained effort and compromise and negotiation of what the community is and what's supposed to be acceptable there! If you have not had even an inkling of those kinds of negotiations, you are not in a community. Possibly you are in a discord server. Which is FINE, but is not the same thing.