[MichaelZuo]

It does tell us that there has been no advancement in terms of jerk gatekeeping.

Because there is no easy way to determine if they actually blocked hundreds of bad ideas.

[vladms]

If a project does not have several hundreds of bad ideas, then probably it is not popular. I don't follow that many projects in detail, but all that I follow get a lot of bad ideas in time.

I think being qualified as a jerk or not is orthogonal to the need of gatekeeping (required in my opinion) or the quantities (higher for more popular).

[MichaelZuo]

How does this relate to the point that no one can determine?, of course they can guess and estimate…