Because the actions of everyone count to the wide perception of a community from the outside.

Rust Striking Force meme exists for a reason, their actions are also not supported by the core team.

>Rust Striking Force meme exists for a reason, their actions are also not supported by the core team.

Many of the core team and by large its community witness RESF in action for long before sending in a few words isn't exactly not supported in my book.

But then again I understand every PL needs a lot of push and marketing. It just went way too far in one direction.

Do they interact at all with the main rust community?

It seems a little disingenuous to describe "community" as including people who haven't even attempted to interact with anyone in the community other than forking their code.