Personally I don't really care about the elitist clause; let the software do the speaking. When I was new to suckless.org I liked what they had to say, but all in all it was the code that got me hooked.
Sure, some people in the community are dicks at times. When I was new I got flamed on IRC for asking stupid questions. It made me a better developer. It taught me to figure it out for myself and stop whining for help. And as for the configuration file...I'd say we have a very universal syntax with one of the most tried, tested, and stable parsers we could possibly use. There is more documentation on our configuration file syntax than for any I can think of right now. -Evan
