Alright here is my last thought on this subject.
You don't loathe respect from people you don't know. You want respect from people that you think are respectable persons. I personally always respected the high skilled ropers of a time, and wanted to be part of them and as such I wanted to earn their respect. These people are long gone for me in terms of new guys (with the exception of sbaffo and Kaleu, which I feel respect me just fine), and I have earned that respect long time ago in a time where my activity in-game was more honored and valued because the community still cared for it. What annoys me is the inability to realize that a community in itself is ever changing and some people, probably due to lack of english knowledge don't know the meaning of it. The very definition of it means it's constantly changing because people leave and join and with them mentality, attitude and interest within the community.
A community has sub-communities, like a village has youngsters, elders and adults, a game community has sub-communities to different aspects of the game. Like in W:A you have ropers, defaults, bng etc. or in a MMO you have PvE, PvP, Trading. Over time the sub-communities in a community change, thus claiming a community didn't change is ignorant, lying and blatant dumb. That is just the objectively observation of the word itself. Also, leagues have influenced W:A heavily. Be it through bans of key figures of the community like for example ropa. While he doesn't hold any weight in our current community he was a respectable person to the higher circle of wormers in terms of skill. Frankly, forum software included a global ban on him so whenever he registered he would get banned. lol TUS pushed Hysteria to be competitive and as such it became a competitive scheme. Under a more traditional league Hysteria would probably not be as popular. So, yeah a community is always changing. Even now I can differentiate between 2016 TUS and the beginning of it which I barely visited.
Subjectively it also changed simply because I can compare now and then. And now I can not host a warmer and fill it to the brim with like minded people while back then I could. That is subjective change. And to sum it up, you (the new guys I have not spend any time with) can't even tell if you or anyone else would respect me anyway. You know 1% of my personality, my activity in game or anything. In fact, you base it on my skill/attitude of today, which is a lot different than it was 10 years ago. For example I can still respect old warming Komo while not liking the new BnG one, but you can't. You would have to judge me based on a picture without having access to a book. There is no simple button to click and you can re-watch everything I have done/said in the past and judge me like people from the actual past could. For example when Komo thinks I am not a respectable person then at least he had access to experiences from the past. When some random guy approaches me and says he doesn't respect me I just don't care because he has no base other then a fraction of posts/activity I did over the years here. My 1,5k posts or whatever I have here are nothing compared to the overall input I have given over time, be it in-game through chat or older leagues and forums.
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