I could always smell this awful elitism and generally treating people like garbage from even the very early days of Stack Overflow and Github. Unfortunately any

I could always smell this awful elitism and generally treating people like garbage from even the very early days of Stack Overflow and Github. Unfortunately any attempts to push back or criticize it will assure you are never allowed to participate in these self reinforcing "karma" based communities, so it's taken waaayyy longer for people to come around on this than it should have.