I deleted my previous post because I feel it was needlessly antagonistic. Lemme try again:

>>64620
You should not lash out so angrily at him. All he's telling you is that Heyuri values fun and earnestness more than any other metric of quality, which as a statement is completely innocuous (and true).
Given that you are a self-admitted newb, and he is not a newb, you should be less quick to completely discard his words. Also, since you are new, it would be appropriate for you to lurk moar before you speak on what Heyuri is, what it has been, and what it should be.
And lastly, when it comes to Rule 8, you shouldn't invoke it in that way. Because obviously its purpose and current function is indeed to stamp out posts that "intentionally kill LOLs, poop on our parties, make the internet a miserable/grumpy/serious place, and are purely self serving", just like he said. You'll notice by looking at the rules, that they only outlaw things that disrupt the site's actual functioning as well as things that have made the rest of the internet lame and unfun. So by looking at the rules you are using to support your argument, we can see that the "community standards" you are talking about only really require users' posts to hop over the low, low bar of not fucking up the site and not being your common everyday 4chan/reddit/twitter/discord garbage (though being Heyuri-flavored garbage is acceptable). So the rules don't really support your argument that Heyuri is all about "quality".
With that said, let's take it easy ( ´ω`)