Stuff and Moonshine

I guess I was kind of assuming it had become divorced from that premise in practice? I mean, every time I look at one of the talk pages, it seems like it's full of people getting in really intense kerfuffles that involve flinging around oacronyms at each other and referencing what seems to be a very well-worked out set of norms, and I suppose I thought, "oh, so a specialized Editor Class has emerged, and here is what it looks like." (I may be way too shy about breaking into online communities, in general!)