You don’t. It’s gatekeeping whether you have 2 spots or 1 million spots available. Likewise, the number of DPS left out is inconsequential. When access is limited, it’s gatekeeping. You’re all getting stuck on semantics.
And the gatekeeping applies to them not being admitted to the group. It’s still gatekeeping.
That’s a really dumb question. We’re not talking about a delay in moving forward, we’re talking about being gatekept from joining. Is this your first day?
Unless the group is disbanded, is the group not able to bring in someone else? Again, getting hung up on the semantics. Any time one person gets to deny another access, for any reason, they are gatekeeping. It’s a pretty simple concept and all these ridiculous scenarios will not change the definition.
But I’m not denying them access to the dungeon. I’m denying them access to my group. Are you insinuating there’s no difference?
I am not denying them the ability to put their own group together. Why worry about all the potential rejections when the player can take control of their own access for themselves?
They are not insinuating but flat out saying that the narrative in their mind is fixed no matter what the circumstances are, and as such are able to maintain being perpetual victims of the universe.
I don’t run mythics and I have not come close to professing I am a victim of any sort. The simple fact is, if you keep another person from joining your group then you are, in fact, gatekeeping.
You all want to argue this most likely because you view the term gatekeeping as only this negative, toxic thing which could never apply to you. But the truth is, gatekeeping is a part of our daily lives and we rarely pay attention to it. Realistically, we ignore it until it is put in front of us either as a negative thing happening to us, or a negative thing we have done to others.
It is not inherently negative, but many only view it as negative.
I’m not here to offer a solution, I’m just calling folks out on their denial. I don’t care what anyone does with the groups they form. You’re going the wrong way with my part of the discussion.
It’s also a true statement to say that there may be the perception of gatekeeping when none exists. We can easily be our own worst enemies in determining that our progress is in the hands of others - though I grant you most of the time in our social species, that is.
I just think that the human brain was given faculty and consciousness to be able to drill down on specifics because details can matter when discussing things such as one’s ability - or perception of one’s ability - to access something. So, to say this is just semantics as a kind of denial of how nuanced this is, I think does a disservice.
Content in the game requires you to both know, and be able to execute mechanics at a certain level, while also outputting a certain amount of damage/healing.
If you being in my group would limit my ability to finish the dungeon, who is gatekeeping whom then? In this scenario, yes, I’m not inviting the person in question, but at the same time, if I did invite that person, we wouldn’t be able to finish the dungeon, this limiting access to the loot at the end.
So, in a very real way, you being unable to perform at the level required by the content is actually just you gatekeeping yourself.
