> I guess the insult was meant to push people to learn more and be proactive instead of begging on IRC. From what I can tell, there's a massive cultural bias t

> I guess the insult was meant to push people to learn more and be proactive instead of begging on IRC. From what I can tell, there's a massive cultural bias towards "filtering" to ensure only the "worthy" or whatever get into the in-group, so yeah I think this is a charitable but not inaccurate to think about it