[davnicwil]

I feel obliged to jump in and defend Scott here - I just don't think what you are saying is a fair summary of his behaviour.

For sure, I see him doing what you say, but I also see him regularly retweeting and responding to comments and questions from accounts with few followers, and particularly so from people from minorities within the developer community.

There are plenty of examples of people I can think of who behave in exactly the way you suggest, mainly spinning the flywheel of boosting the online presence of already famous people and not engaging much with outsiders, but Scott not only isn't one of them but perhaps one of the best examples I can think of of actively doing the opposite of that.

[briandrupieski]

I was about to try to comment this same idea to defend Scott. To further support it, I recommend anyone to look at the guests he interviews on his podcast, https://www.hanselminutes.com/. He goes out of his way to find and interview guests who are under-represented. Scott Hanselman is someone who I believe definitely does NOT gatekeep, and tries as best as he can to give people a chance to "break in".

onion2k I ask you to look again at his Twitter stream and podcast, and re-assess your evaluation of him.