OP - i'm sorry that guy on your PR was a dick. I also don't think that a demand that the entire culture change to be more welcoming is a proportionate response

OP - i'm sorry that guy on your PR was a dick. I also don't think that a demand that the entire culture change to be more welcoming is a proportionate response. Some cultures don't want to be welcoming to just anyone. Arch prides itself on having a very high entry bar and filters out the ones who don't make it. You may not like it, some people may be dicks, but that is their choice to make. Gatekeeping in a limited sense is literally something everyone does in some measure - in picking friends and dates, hiring, immigration etc. It's not an unalloyed bad thing™ its weird but this problem is rooted in youtubers/discords who don't have the slightest clue what the community values or what Arch/Manjaro is jumping in and pumping millions of newcomers into a distro that doesn't want them. if 5-10 youtubers understood their audience, did their research responsibly and picked the right distro to recommend before pumping out a video that hits millions (cough LTT cough), a lot of this could have been avoided.