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So call it a community of practice. But again, a genuine CoP (in the cognitive anthropological sense) is not quite the same as a social club which just refers to itself as a "community" as an excuse for engaging in groupthink and petty politics. If you want to be understood by established researchers in this and related areas (such as epistemic community), it is very important to use correct terminology. Many of them would not advocate the term "community" without some clear qualifiers attached.
Ah, I see you are familiar with the Connotation Game! For the sake of clarity, though, I'd recommend you phrase your entries like this:
We are a community.
You guys are a social club.
They are a clique.
OK. So the source of this argument is...you're taking the "cognitive anthropological meaning" of community. I've never studied cognitive anthropology, so I guess I'm using the "folk" definition of community. Which is all fair and good–according to cognitive anthropologists, I'm wrong–except that (I strongly suspect) almost everyone else on this site is also using the folk definition, not the specialists' one.