Comment by i_cannot_hack

4 hours ago

Then you haven't understood the complaint.

I understood it just fine. You object to creations and creativity that do not pass your subjective quality bar and/or aren't produced in a way that is satisfactory to the people already behind the gate.

It's the literal definition of gatekeeping.

The problem you describe (quantity over so-called quality) is a discovery and curation problem.

Yet you blame the tools of creation and lament the lack of restriction or controls on production instead.

Yes these tools make it easier to produce, and yes that means that you have more low-quality work out there. I'm not pretending like that doesn't introduce new challenges.

But the answer isn't to gate-keep the tools or the process of creation or to stop or shame people from being creative with these new tools by universally calling their work "slop" or "bad".