Scrymarch . # .

Frustrating, but not an anti-pattern: Nepotism?  Branch-stack?

I definitely agree that todays gatekeeper situation isn\'t a good one.  But parties are useful institutions, and fairly natural emergent properties from large populations of peers.

This is one of the reasons I\'ve held off on anti-patterns.  They\'re harder to write, they\'re less important, and they\'re often just an overapplication of a useful pattern.  Alexander\'s original doesn\'t have anti-patterns.