Guide to The Doom Community

Goodness gracious thank goodness I came across this... "guide".

As a "secondary" myself, who is running my very own Doom mod Discord server even after being nuked (due to circumstances outside of my influence on another server), I can't help but feel that parts of this have happened to me from time to time over the past 10 years. I think I've been able to stay generally out of other people's way, for the most part, so I can't really say anything significant that came about... but a lot of it did resonate strongly with me.

I'm usually based more on Discord, since that has instant-messaging capabilities (I love real-time conversations), and being able to create my own space, I can more effectively gatekeep content posted on my server (though I'm fairly laid-back and hands-off, people should be able to enjoy the mod and its surrounding community without having to be worried about saying the wrong thing).

When it came to gatekeeping, the most egregious thing that came about was just a bunch of suggestions about how to change my mod, Embers Of Armageddon, to work differently, to suit their personal tastes. The only reason that I needed in order to keep things the way they were was to adhere faithfully to the source material (DOOM (2016)), and there'd be no further questions... although I have opened up an avenue for people to make or suggest mutators for the mod (since it is just a mod after all) to spice things up if they so desired. Now of course, I know that these users are well-intentioned, but I also know that even though they may present good suggestions, implementation of any of a good majority of them would compromise the underlying principles behind EOA and what makes EOA distinct. It was made as a response to modifications that sought to take their own spin on the DOOM (2016) formula. I merely posited that it would not only work by itself (with as few liberties taken as possible) in the classic Doom games, but that it would also work well. The thousands of users in my server would tend to agree as well.

In any case, I have thoroughly read through this thread of yours for future reference. It will help greatly with combating bad actors within any communities that may sprout up later on. Many thanks for this insight of yours!

replace doom with most things and this would still be true

We have failed gatekeeping after "DOOM (2016)".
It is already so over for this community.
At least, for the Western one.