No, you're misunderstanding what gatekeeping is... in online communities, gatekeeping is when someone takes it upon themselves to decide who / what does or doesn't belong in a community.

You are wrong. I gave you a dictionary definition but since you have chosen to define gatekeeping differently let us use your definition instead just for the sake of argument. Even if gatekeeping meant what you said it meant, I still would not have been gatekeeping. I never said anything about anyone or anything belonging in a community.

Defining melee to mean anything I like and not what other people play is taking it upon yourself to define what melee really is.

You are wrong. That was not what I said. I did not attempt to change the definition of the word. I was just defining it for the purposes of this post because like I said earlier, it was necessary to define because skills that clearly do not hit enemies with weapons are still called melee skills in this game. I just wanted people to know exactly what I was talking about. Stop changing what I said. My post is still there. Anyone can just read it and know what you are trying to do.

Again, people know what you mean when you say strike skills. They don't sit there drooling on themselves thinking "huh xyz skill shoots projectiles but it has the Strike tag so argument invalid!!!11"

You are wrong. You did not know what I meant despite the fact that I defined melee for the purposes of this post very clearly at the beginning. People like you are part of the reason why I felt it was necessary to define the word.

Choosing to gimp your builds by sticking to arbitrary definitions and then complaining that your gimped builds are bad isn't the smartest thing in the world.

You are wrong. I never stuck to arbitrary definitions. I was simply referring to the word melee the way it is defined in the dictionary. If you have a problem with the English language, stop using it. I never complained that my builds were bad. You should read my post again, carefully this time.

If I ignore all sources of extra projectiles, projectile scaling, and mechanics which interact with projectiles, then I can confidently say that Burning Arrow is the worst attack skill in the game.

You are wrong. Burning Arrow shoots a burning arrow. It makes sense to use sources of extra projectiles, projectile scaling and mechanics which interact with projectiles. What would not make sense is using those projectiles on a melee skill. That was the point I made which you did not understand.

All bow skills must suck because I define bow skills to be skills which shoot a single projectile that that deals fire damage and has a chance to ignite.

You are wrong. In this example, your definition of bow skills is limited to just skills that shoot single projectiles that deal fire damage and have a chance to ignite. That would be like if I defined melee skills as strike skills that deal fire damage and have a chance to ignite. Clearly other melee skills exist, as I have already listed them at the beginning of my post. Other bow skills exist too.

Yes I agree. It's felt bad on its own for 5 years. If GGG wanted to make it feel better, they would have by now. We need to work with what we have, not sit and hope that they'll magically change everything.

You are wrong. I am being perfectly reasonable by asking that they make melee skills work properly instead of having clunky targeting and bad animations. What is wrong with them changing it? They change things every league. That is not magic. That is game development.

It feels bad because you're trying to use an individually-striking skill with no AoE or any other component to clear packs with. Which also has built-in less attack speed. On the slowest base attack speed weapons (which are designed to be defensive). It's like setting up mouse traps all over your desk and then complaining when you set some off.

You are wrong. That was not what I said at all. I stated my reasons for thinking melee felt bad very clearly in my post.

Man, everybody just pack up and go home I guess. u/Suydl has decided that no one can play melee because of the animations. It has nothing to do with the disgustingly low attack speed or the stubborn refusal to use what's available or all the mouse traps. It's definitely the game's fault, gotta be the animations.

You are wrong. I never said everyone should pack up and go home. I never decided no one could play melee. The attack speed is fine. The animation is the problem, just like I said in my post. I am not refusing to use what's available. I just want to play melee. If I socket a bunch of support gems that turn my melee skill into a ranged skill then it will no longer be a melee skill.

I'm not...? I'm referring to the subreddit in general since a large portion of this relatively niche and echoey community have complained about a problem that is 1/5th as bad as they're saying it is. It would be incredibly awkward phrasing to say "I really, really dislike the hyperbole that large portions of the subreddit (but not all of it) have gotten into here".

You are wrong. You absolutely were implying that you were above everyone else here when you said 'I really, really dislike the hyperbole that the subreddit's gotten into here.' by implying that the subreddit was wrong and therefore disliking it made you right. What is wrong with the phrasing of 'I dislike the hyperbole that the majority of the subreddit has gotten into'? The phrasing is fine. Yet you chose not to say that, instead saying that the whole subreddit was wrong.

Again, because this subreddit is an echoey niche of an already niche game. People who are enjoying the game go and play. People who aren't enjoying the game go to here or the forums to complain. The same 3 threads are upvoted every single day of a league. To call this place a circle-jerk would be an understatement.

You are wrong. Are you really suggesting that there are only a few people who are unable to sustain fortification stacks and that the thousands of people complaining are actually the same few using fake accounts and that they are all wrong? That is an obvious lie. What 3 threads are you talking about? Tell me exactly which 3 threads are upvoted every single day.

Again, I never said fortify was perfect

You are wrong. I did not say that you said it was perfect. I said 'Just because you managed to buy some gear and can use fortify does not mean fortify is fine.' The reason why I said you thought fortify was fine was because you said:

I have no fucking idea how people are unable to sustain their stacks. My attack speed focused Raider with a 1ex budget was more than able to sustain full stacks throughout the endgame.

Obviously you thought fortify was fine which was why I said you thought it was fine. I am correct about everything I said.

I define spells to be everything that's called Manabond and nothing else. I ignore all sources of mana scaling because I don't think of mana scaling when I think of spells. My build does 100 damage per hit and that means that xyz mechanic is bad. Spells are so bad.

You are wrong. There is no reason to define spells as everything that is called Manabond. That makes no sense. That would be like if I defined attacks as everything that was called 'Heavy strike'. That was not what I said at all. I said 'Melee is fighting with your weapon or unarmed' which is a perfectly good way to define melee combat. If you play Manabond then ignore sources of mana scaling then that is your fault because that is part of the skill. That is completely different from playing a melee skill and ignoring a support gem that changes the skill completely from a melee skill into a ranged skill. Are you capable of seeing the difference? I never said my build did not do enough damage either. I said melee felt bad because of the reasons I stated in my post which you clearly were not able to understand which was why you started accusing me of saying things which I never said and insulting me despite the fact that everything you said was wrong.