[i_cannot_hack]

It becomes a problem for everone when spaces meant for meaningful work become overrun with an awful stream of endless mediocre slop that someone quickly generated without giving it a second thought. The problem here is not that it is fast and easy. The cardinal sin is that it is fast, easy AND bad.

[sbarre]

Huge gatekeeping energy right here.

[i_cannot_hack]

Do you think people complaining about online marketplaces being overrun with unscrupulous drop-shippers are "gatekeeping e-commerce" as well?

[sbarre]

No I do not because that's not a reasonable comparison?

[i_cannot_hack]

Then you haven't understood the complaint.

[sbarre]

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".

[i_cannot_hack]

So you completely agree with the factual description of the problem I supplied when asked to describe the problem, your only real complaint is that I used the phrase "more awful slop" instead of your preferred euphemism "more low-quality work". Having a frank discussion about the problems caused by new technology is not gatekeeping, and I don't think we should sugarcoat it out of fear of hurting people's feelings.