Why are open table OSR games like that?

Caveat Emptor: I do not play games across a wide range of communities. I am mostly active in one space centered around the OSR/DIY and my own home table group I have gamed with for six years in tabletop and over fifteen for other games. The title of this could easily be Why are _________ games like that? If I were a member of any of those other spaces. I"ve been a player in the GB OSR server for a little over a year now and running a Classic Traveller game there for five months or so now. During all that time I have played with probably close to a dozen or so different GMs and have had lots of different folks as players. I run an open table game there and all of the games I've been a player in so far have been open table. My home game group is closed table group and we've all known each other for at minimum seven years and some of us much longer than that. This post addresses some issues that this public, online play culture can have. The play cultures are completely different and…