[saint_fiasco]

The nerds have reason to believe that if their community accepts new people, eventually they will be excluded from their own community by the most popular newcomers. That's the whole reason they started their own exclusive community in the first place.

I wouldn't want to live life like a Sentinelese tribesman, I think the uncontacted tribes in Sentinel island would be happier in the long run if they integrated to the global community. But I understand why they don't.

[vkou]

I'm sure we can all think of simpler solutions to that problem than 'NO COOTIES'.

The exclusion they practice is not an exclusion over values and interests, which is why they didn't fit into mainstream culture. It's one of immutable identity.

Which is completely fucked, and has no excuse in a public space and forum. None at all.

[hackable_sand]

This is the point of the article though.

These aren't "newcomers".

These are people in the same tribe being excluded or hazed for superficial reasons, nothing related to their shared interests and nerdiness over a subject.

[eowln]

If they were in the same tribe they wouldn’t be excluded. Unless you move the goalposts of what the tribe is.

[protocolture]

>The nerds have reason to believe that if their community accepts new people, eventually they will be excluded from their own community by the most popular newcomers.

Yeah because they make other people feel unwelcome lmao. Being dicks gets them booted.