So it's almost never used 'correctly', at least here.
I was going with how the term is used, and your description hardly ever fits the bill.
The irony in being labeled a white knight often goes like this:
Person A criticizes the game
Person B disagrees with the assessment.
Person A labels person B the White Knight.
The irony is this. Person A blames person B for not being able to handle criticism of the game, while person B just disagrees. But person A is therefore also saying that his criticism of the game is beyond discussion. In other words, those who use the term White Knight are often hypocrites.
The wider community being a couple of people, namely you and those who agree with you.
By the way, what you describe there is the ad populum fallacy, even if the wider community is broader than you and yours. So you're excusing using a fallacy by means of another one.
Nice rabbit hole. Deep.
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