What is an 'Elitist'

[Worm]

Well your first statement was incorrect in every way I could see, in other words, utterly incorrect.

Oh so you think people use it in MMOs to refer to a person who is like a peasant who earnestly believes the noblemen are the best people to be in power? Obviously no one is trying to decide what is the best ruling structure for a MMO since there isn't a ruling structure for it. Additionally, I don't remember a single player who you might call an elitist, whether they're good or not, actually believing they are bad. The word is used in MMOs in a different way then referring to power structure of elitist societies, wow, who would have thought? If you want to come up with some more discrete term like 'delusion self loathing bad player' or something that's fine but I don't think it's that incorrect to conflate Elitist and Elite for the sake of MMOs, especially considering that's the common use in games beyond it just being a pejorative.

edit: I actually read your original response to me that I disregarded, aren't you just defining the pejorative here? "An Elitist is someone who sets themself above others regardless of their own actual or apparent skill." you're just defining dickhead here, you know that right? Do you really think elite top level players NEVER think they're above other players, or is it because they are actually superior then it ... no longer is Elitism?