Lecturing on True Collectors is a Form of Gatekeeping

From the standpoint of a brand community, speculators serve a paradoxical role: speculators can offer collectibles to members who may not otherwise have access to them; however, they also operate as gatekeepers, causing price inflation and preventing consumers from obtaining desired products (Ardley and McIntosh, 2019, Macák and Šašalová, 2022). Therefore, in brand communities, speculators can either contribute to achieving a consumption goal (Zhou et al., 2012) or provide a risk that restricts · To explore the hypothesized model (see Fig. 1), a survey was administered to participants in several Facebook and Reddit groups within the Squishmallow collector community.

Collecting is a common acquisitive and possessive behavior that is generally regarded by society as more valued and less selfish than other forms of luxury consumption. Based on depth interviews with 200 collectors, an assessment of collecting is offered considering its problems and benefits for the individual collector, the collector's household, and society.

Humans define themselves through memberships in groups organized around common values. But how are group boundaries and membership criteria determined? Specifically, how do individuals evaluate those who exclude (vs. include) outsiders from group membership (i.e., gatekeeping), and what explains ...

Physicians are increasingly confronted with the consequences of allocation policies. In several countries, physicians have been assigned a gatekeeper role for secondary health care. Many ethicists oppose this assignment for several reasons, concentrating on the harm the intrusion of societal arguments would inflict on doctor-patient relations.

You're putting your finger on something that's always fascinated me about online arguments. They have this way of moving right past the details of the topic at hand to collect around whatever accusation people are taken with at the time: Is this "gatekeeping," is this "pearl-clutching" or "concern trolling," is this woke or "virtue signalling," is this racist/classist/misogynist, etc.

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Gatekeeping is the process through which information is filtered for dissemination, whether for publication, broadcasting, the Internet, or some other mode of communication. The academic theory of gatekeeping may be found in multiple fields of study, including communication studies, journalism, ...

But not once have we ever pointed out that if someone likes something they are wrong. This is gatekeeping and if you do this you have no place within any collecting community. It has become an ongoing issue, especially within the Funko groups, ...

The driving factors are always loyalty, satisfaction, ego, greed or in some cases revenge. “True” collectors are those who are honest with why they collect and accept their limits. You collect for you not for someone else, so don’t worry ...