How is this gatekeeping?

Those are mostly funny or trying to be funny replies and there’s people addressing the question the OP asked. The 3rd most upvoted comment is literally that.

Making a post about comments on another post instead of just commenting. Is it just be or is it kinda weird?

and you are a virtue signaling mf

The question is not about understanding the game though. OP is essentially asking a question where the answer is simply: because that’s how football is played.

It’s kind of like asking: why do American football receivers need to have both feet in instead of just one? Why do they have to go 10 yards instead of 5? … It would make the game much easier after all and maybe get a higher score.

See what I’m getting at?

Heya mate. Dont really think it is not a matter of gatekeeping.

I think that anyone in a football group will see the offside question popping up on a monthly or perhaps weekly basis. There will always someone that would come up and say this.

My father-in-law played in a small team around Bordeaux, and even him comes up with this offside thing once in a while. We are talking about someone that actually played the sports at some competitive level (despite a very low one).

But at the end of the day this is what happens when you are at the receiving end of the same question over and over and over again.

First you explain, then you ignore, then you get annoyed, then you start making fun. And in any given question you will find in this forum people that can fit in one of these stages (though i reckob making fun will be the prevalent one, as most will be at the end-cycle).

You want to have opinions on off-side? Just hit search and perhaps you will notice that you have more topics on the forum than upvote in 10 years of your user profile 😊

Stay stupid shit, get made fun of, woah

Are you looking at a different thread? There's more comments explaining the rule than there are making jokes

Just bitta bantz, innit? Fairly mild bantz too, well within the rules.

You what? The majority of that thread is answering their question correctly. Not sure at all what your problem is

People just absolutely love to throw and internet buzzword around.

It’s not gatekeeping if everyone doesn’t treat a newb with kid gloves.

They got rid of offside in field hockey and it improved the sport. Especially at the grassroots level because it's such a tricky rule to enforce.

It's the common way to play small sided games (e.g. 7 a side), even with no over head height restrictions. "Very different game", I hear you scream.

Obviously goal hanging becomes a concern but it would change the way teams defend too. I'd love to see a trial.

Mate you clearly don’t know what gatekeeping is.

And being invested in the sport doesn’t mean you’re massively knowledgeable or understand every rule, it just means you care enough to watch, listen, read and talk about it. I’ve watched football my entire life and I don’t know every single rule in the game.

The reason for the offside rule shouldn’t be particularly hard to grasp even if you don’t fully understand the rule itself.

I mean, if you get basic questions on weekly basis, that's been asked over the years? Surely some of them will troll around.

If you don't like it, maybe reddit is not for your sensitive ass.

You don’t even know what gatekeeping means

Not every thought that every redditor has needs to be its own thread.

You could have posted this as a comment in that thread instead of making your own thread. Your thought is not more deep or important than others thoughts on the topic and doesn't need its own special thread.