What I was trying to say was that I don’t think that its level of “(only community building)-ness” is much higher than that of board games or fan fiction. A little higher, maybe, but not that much. I don’t know if I’d feel differently if I’d actually participated in such a ritual, though.
This isn’t at all unlike what I imagine the ingroup-strengthening response to ritual to feel from the inside.
What I was trying to say was that I don’t think that its level of “(only community building)-ness” is much higher than that of board games or fan fiction. A little higher, maybe, but not that much. I don’t know if I’d feel differently if I’d actually participated in such a ritual, though.