I disagree because someone sharing their opinion does not limit others from accessing the content. Edit if others aren’t targeted during the opinion sharing
Someone saying “blue isn’t a good color” doesn’t make blue less accessible, and their opinion isn’t authoritative in some access based way.
Gatekeeping to me would be flaming someone if they don’t know some nuance about some character in one particular episode then saying they shouldn’t be watching trek at all. They aren’t a “real fan.”
But we disagree on this most likely. I didn’t @ you or reply to you directly as I didn’t want to slap fight. I was just discussing with OP who has since deleted. So, dead thread I guess. To be clear: I was addressing the votes primarily.
The original statement surely is a weak opinion on its own, which was hashed out below.
I disagree because someone sharing their opinion does not limit others from accessing the content.
That’s not what gatekeeping in fandom is. Gatekeeping is to claim that either some content is not real <franchise> or that some fan is not a real fan of <franchise> because of <opinion>. That is exactly what OP did by claiming that Discovery was not ‘real Trek’. They then listed stuff that were personal opinions and ways that they felt about the show as an example of why it isn’t Real Trek. They then changed tact entirely when the gatekeeping was pointed out and admitted they were wrong.
They were gatekeeping. This isn’t a matter of opinion, that was a matter of fact. You can disagree with that but you’d be wrong. Gatekeeping has no business in any franchise, nevermind Star Trek.
The first comment was literally “I like Discovery but it’s not real Trek”.
That is textbook gatekeeping.
I disagree because someone sharing their opinion does not limit others from accessing the content. Edit if others aren’t targeted during the opinion sharing
Someone saying “blue isn’t a good color” doesn’t make blue less accessible, and their opinion isn’t authoritative in some access based way.
Gatekeeping to me would be flaming someone if they don’t know some nuance about some character in one particular episode then saying they shouldn’t be watching trek at all. They aren’t a “real fan.”
But we disagree on this most likely. I didn’t @ you or reply to you directly as I didn’t want to slap fight. I was just discussing with OP who has since deleted. So, dead thread I guess. To be clear: I was addressing the votes primarily.
The original statement surely is a weak opinion on its own, which was hashed out below.
That’s not what gatekeeping in fandom is. Gatekeeping is to claim that either some content is not real <franchise> or that some fan is not a real fan of <franchise> because of <opinion>. That is exactly what OP did by claiming that Discovery was not ‘real Trek’. They then listed stuff that were personal opinions and ways that they felt about the show as an example of why it isn’t Real Trek. They then changed tact entirely when the gatekeeping was pointed out and admitted they were wrong.
They were gatekeeping. This isn’t a matter of opinion, that was a matter of fact. You can disagree with that but you’d be wrong. Gatekeeping has no business in any franchise, nevermind Star Trek.
Edit.meh this isn’t worth it
I’ll edit and close by saying I DO agree with your final sentence. That is very true.