Translation: I will cherry pick the posts I want to reply to.
Hilariously, you even quoted the wrong definition of meta. Don't you realize it has nothing to do with either its normal use or your wrong use? The one relevant to gaming is this.
adjectiveUS
1.
(of a creative work) referring to itself or to the conventions of its genre; self-referential.
"the enterprise is inherently meta, since it doesn't review movies, for example, it reviews the reviewers who review movies"
"Metagame" is the game around the actual game, which has nothing to do with your argument. If you were sincere about your argument, you would now accept this criticism, admit you used it wrongly, and move on. Bets on the actual outcome, anyone?
Did you read our posts? We put disclaimers that's what
everyone but you is referring to with the term.
No, you're talking about the supposedly widespread use of the word "toxic" to describe actually constructive criticism. Everyone else is just scratching their heads at the strawman.
I don't claim to know why anyone would do that, indeed.
I only know that you in fact did.