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The evils of in-group bias are getting at me. I felt a bit of anger when reading this comment. Go figure, I rarely feel noticeable emotions, even in response to dramatic events. The only feature that could trigger that reaction seems to be the dissenting theme of this comment, the way it breached the normal narrative of the game of sane/insane statements. I wrote a response after a small time-out, I hope it isn't tainted by that unfortunate reaction.
I don't think it's in-group bias. If anything, people are giving mni extra latitude because he or she is seen as new here.
If an established member of the community were to make the same points, that much of the discussion is uninteresting or bullshit, that the community is failing and maybe not worth "wasting" time for, and to claim to have interesting things to say but make excuses for not actually saying them, I bet there would be a lot more criticism in response.
As I wrote, anger is an improbable reaction for me, and there doesn't seem to be anything extraordinarily angering about that comment, so I can't justify that emotion appearing in this particular instance. The fact that the poster isn't a regular might be a factor as well.