I did email you asking to join, and shared samples of my work to show that I was serious and still got turned down. At that time, I was working on my games pretty much full time, but had just gotten started and could've used some encouragement from fellow indie gamedevs.

There were other comments on your post last time indicating that people felt your attitude to community management was exclusive and shitty, and I would really hate for some bright eyed indie game dev out there who doesn't have a steam page yet or whatever random criterion you use to "weed out" people and don't share up front to feel excluded like I did.