What is an 'Elitist'

I've seen the word thrown around too many times and different people give different views. So I wanted to know what do you guys view as an elitist?

anyone that says anything mildly negative about me

Anyone that disagrees with an opinion apparently.

someone who believes skill matters and that people should be held accountable for holding the rest of their group back. also someone who values statistical data(parsers) and researches tough boss fights before trying to tackle them with a random group of experienced players who already know the fight.

people who roll on loot for vanity instead of letting noobs have a free ride

Honestly, the word means nothing anymore nowadays. People just throw it around as an insult when they're rustled.

e·lit·ism
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noun
1. practice of or belief in rule by an elite.
2. consciousness of or pride in belonging to a select or favored group.


It means the idea that there is a group of people, an "elite class" that has either the natural aptitude or simply superior training/education, who should be the ones who rule/govern/etc. In MMOs it's used to refer to players who are at the "top" of the game due to either natural skill or practice, telling others what they should do within the game because they have reached the highest tiers of success/ability/whatever themselves. Like all popular terms on the Internet, past a certain point people just start applying it to anything and everything they don't like because it has a negative connotation.

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Originally Posted by alhandra

someone who believes skill matters and that people should be held accountable for holding the rest of their group back. also someone who values statistical data(parsers) and researches tough boss fights before trying to tackle them with a random group of experienced players who already know the fight.

people who roll on loot for vanity instead of letting noobs have a free ride

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Lol you make it sound like wanting to play with good players is a bad thing.

forum users.

Yeah wrong place to ask this, your just gonna get DB's patting themselves on the back saying that they are great.

This is where a lot of the "elitist" hang out anyways.

Watch all the White knights defend Elitist practices.

Elitist is mostly the game Nazi's, who think they are great and they know everything. Lots of them aren't even that good, they just have a narcissistic belief in their own abilities that inflates their ego's.

An elitist is what bad players call players that use their brain/play smart.