And what the hell is a Codexer anyway? Celerity started using popamole and "we" bizarrely in relation to Red Hook.
He consistently says "popeamole" and has no concept what it refers to whatsoever. In addition, he holds a (contextually) comical level of ignorance regarding Fallout vs. Fallout 3/4 and has the patience and maturity of the average 8 year old playing Cow Clicker on their smartphone ("tell me why I should play this", "explain the difference to me or can't you?").
That said, the issue of whether he belongs here and whether the curator is a form of belonging or brotherhood are red herrings.
Celerity obviously has personal grievances against this game, having spent a huge amount of time trying to improve upon it only to see the developer go in a totally different and disappointing direction with the game. However, amongst his personal grievances are legitimate criticisms which ring true and stand out
despite the source and the vagaries of the situation. His posts are, on the whole, more interesting and valuable than some others in the thread - as much an indictment as that is.
The Codex Curator is something which anyone ought to be able to criticize and which the gatekeepers ought to be able to control as they see fit. But surely everyone can see the outcome of the current responses regarding the curator. If someone gives arguments why it shouldn't be there and the response is "well there are a lot of things that shouldn't be there", then any declined shit that ends up there is going to stick around indefinitely if we keep following that logic. The curator doesn't need to be some superlative beacon to ideological purity just like it doesn't need to be some shitlist whose only purpose is to troll. It would be
nice if most of its entries reflected at least a pattern of thoughtfulness. At the moment, especially with entries like Darkest Dungeon, it pretty much seems like a personal blog for curators. I absolutely despised almost everything about PoE and found it hugely disappointing, but there are good arguments for it to remain on that list. There are no such arguments for things like Darkest Dungeon, and I think most people (curators included) can appreciate the idea of the curator being a bit more consistent in that respect.