What are we smoking?

Right.
*Goes and attempts to have fun.*
*Stereotypical Dexless Assassin changes to my channel*
Sin: Nub I have better equipments .
Me: Don't bother me, I'm trying to have fun.
Sin: Ha ha ha ha nuuuuuuub *kses me for the rest of the day*
Yeah, I doubt you can convince the entire community, especially if it contains many immature ten year olds who use ad hominems.

I also have some things to add to that list:

-Being cut out of boss runs because your class is "supposedly" inferior to the Elite. Archmages and WKs are usually the victims of this because somehow the Elite classes (Bishops and NLs come to mind) believe that having those classes in a bossrun will cause the group to wipe and die. Aren't the only reason for dying in a boss run because you don't have enough health to take a max hit, or for being too slow to pot? Heck, I even think people wouldn't even take Mages and WKs to small stuff like APQ or HTPQ! (Sure, the whole Geist Rog being elementally strong is a setback, but at least he's not immune.)

-Being cut out because you didn't "max" out your character in every possible way. Yes, I'm looking at you DEXless Sins who only went that way to show off your awesome L33T DPS. I'm also looking at those people who think Facestompers are a necessary investment, even before they even upgrade their cape or gloves!

-Being cut out of getting upgrades just because your class can't make money for crap, and that you don't use iTCG/Gachapon/buy mesos/APQ/gold-dig/MTS merchant/general merchant/Use a DK to hack and bot for mesos/Using site exploits or social engineering to steal accounts.

The whole lack of actual competition (PvP for example) in MS leads people to being competitive elsewhere. The above are just a few examples of it.

And those negative aspects have led me to spending less time in MS since '07, even though I came back to MS in May of this year to see things. And yes, I was around to see the PG hacking epidemic once, which led me to vacate MS until May of '08. Heck, I still don't even understand how I managed to live through the hacking epidemics in '05-'07, yet somehow the PG hacking turned me off from MS until now. Granted, I was a hacker hunter in the '05-'07 days, but I think that itself also burned me out.