What's a community that gatekeeps really hard?

I guess ranchers too. Except they gatekeep the old fashion way as well.

There was a "welcome wagon" type group who were supposed to invite new people to coffee and doughnuts with the congregation in the basement after services. I watched the one invite one family and offer a handshake, visibly retracted the hand to skip over Single Mom, and then extend an invitation to the next family. Ice cold.

Just like Jesus would have wanted eh

Ham licenses make sense. If you screw up, you ruin things for everyone, so you have to make sure everyone who transmits knows what they're doing. The problem is the elitism, and how many of them look down on anything more modern than vacuum tubes as not being real amateur radios.

I think those only need 1 test to play with them, and that's because they are regulated by the government. They want people to follow the rules because if they don't it can come down on all of them.

The biggest one of these that I know of is falconry which requires 1 falconry test, 1 hunt test, 1 inspection, and finding a two year sponsor. Falconry is specifically set up to gatekeep as to protect the sport in the USA.

Right target, wrong reason: Testing for HAM makes complete sense. It's government imposed to get licensed, and that's because the equipment required for HAM could be easily modified to interfere with other electronics or run up against communications laws. HAM being self-regulated (in that everyone is a snitch if they find out you're operating without a license) is only going to be possible if everyone is a snitch. Also, everyone has to share the radio spectrum, so you should know how to be a good actor before you get the chance to go on air.

But there is gatekeeping in HAM in how few beginners focused resources there are. At least in Canada, I found only one set of books that taught the latest HAM exam and one series of YouTube videos (thanks Ylabs!)

I have found very few "your first radio" resources. Hunting for that sort of thing is an intimidating experience, full of jargon and acronyms (not stuff like "VHF" and stuff you need for the exam, but model descriptions and stuff). Lots of sites and radio club web pages aren't kept up to date, and it's a lot to ask of new people that they come out to field day for in person meetups when it's just a bunch of strangers.

I found HAM folks super welcoming. I came to take the entry level test and they encouraged me to take the next level one at the same time, and generously offered to help me pass it.

All of this applies to many niche communities. In Germany, especially the older forums that are around since the internet became widly popular show such behavior. Take HiFi- forums for example: If your plugs are not made with gold, you are doing it wrong. Also, if you want to spend money for a hobby, don't bother to start if you are not willing to spend at least an unreasonable ridiculous ammount of Euros.

These enthusiast also complain about a lack of new members. It's the nobody wants to work anymore sentiment, but with niche hobby communities.

Replace "trains" with "amateur radio" and the entire paragraph fits perfectly.

And even if you do listen to death/black metal, you can still get crap from some people if it's not a certain sub-genre. It's just music, let me listen in peace, I don't need a lecture.

As an older metalhead, this makes me a bit sad, but I guess I shouldn't be too surprised. The metal scene I joined in the early 90s did have its tolerance problems specifically against other music genres, but I never knew it as particularly gatekeepy, at least the circles I socialised with and the concerts and festivals I went to. There were some people who though you weren't a real metal fan if you didn't exclusively listen to metal, but they were a minority. Nobody had a problem with me not particularly liking Slayer or Motörhead, and there was no requirement to have long hair and be covered in leather and/or band patches.

I listen to a variety of metal. If most of your song is incomprehensible screaming or growling (in any genre, for that matter), I'm not interested in that song.

you have to have the metal uniform and some insignia, else you are out.

If they have no ego, why are they shellfish?

Also r/Israel (for obvious reasons). It's sad, especially considering that so many people would benefit if the Jews and Muslims were living together in harmony. Which we don't see due to the apartheid regime that is Israel.

Let's just call it fromsoft fans

Not true. We just call people who focus on the wrong kinds of games "assholes."

You know what, I've stopped getting excited when I met someone claiming to be a gamer, because they inevitably say they play "Dota". Play what you want, but why is it always Dota?

didn’t end up in a branch that’s still active

Could you elaborate, please? I know Jack about farming and this sounds fascinating

What makes you think you may speak for us?

German dubs are actually top notch

I find this ironic when compared to native language German porn, which frequently has audio that is distractingly out of sync to the point that it almost seems like it's many minutes off. It's not even just one studio either, it happens to a lot of them for some reason. I'm starting to wonder if there's an industry joke that I'm not aware of which explains it, but I haven't noticed the same issue with porn produced in other languages.

I used to roll my eyes at people who watch movies in o-tone. I just thought they are kind of pretentious. But fuck me they were right.

I don't have a lot of comparisons to dubs in other languages, but most german dubs I know are average at best. The biggest problem is that they often pick voice actors who just don't suit the character or the original actor. The stilted reading/talking is another issue, which is also often present in original German productions.

German dubs are actually top notch compared to other countries

This is true for movie productions. They are dubbed well, even to a point where jokes and plays on words are translated as well. On the other hand, cartoons are not. They lack of something that makes them unwatchable when dubbed - I think it's because some of the play on words and jokes are missing, also the dubbed voices differ extremely from the original. Such thing can make a character appear and be percieved very different, compared to the original. If cartoonn are availiable in original language (English), I'll prefer that.

Yesterday I watched an interesting video about this topic: Why Germany dubbs movies, but other countries don't
Warum Deutschland Filme synchronisiert und andere Länder nicht The video comes with insights from a voice actor, who dubbs the voice of Leonardo di Caprio.

German dubs are actually top notch compared to other countries.

Sadly, this does not apply to the show Dark. Fantastic show. Terrible dubbing.

I would be bothered if a movie written in pig-latin was dub to English... who doesn't understand pig?

What beautiful language.

Gatekeep so hard they require DNA tests

Not all of Arch Land is a barren wasteland of unfriendlyness. There is a small village called EndeavourOS that … keeps the gate wide open … or so. Younhopefully get what I mean. They are nice people.

Unless it's completely changed since the APIpocalypse, I'm going to say wrong criticism, right target. It's a big place, only some parts of which gatekeep much.

The Deaf community is very insulure as well

"If someone tries to steal your ukelele, let them take it!"