And you're missing my point. That looks bad. It doesn't matter how you interpret it, Kindly, when people say something like "LessWrong is elitist:" ... "I wish LessWrong was more elitist!" and it gets 20 upvotes, that looks really bad.

And if you had actually read the Elitist Jerks article past the title, you would have noticed this sentence:

"We're (a site called elitistjerks.com) exactly the sort of 'well-kept garden' that EY's post is about."

Interpreting that to mean "LessWrong is a bunch of elitist jerks." is likely to be a common interpretation.

Kindly, when it comes to how the outside world perceives LessWrong and members like myself who are (tentatively) choosing to associate myself with you guys (possibly not for long, because of this) it does not matter one rat's behind how you interpret things like that. Those kinds of statements upset people.

I feel like you're arguing with strawmen here, and it's starting to get old.