Has Anyone Else Noticed This?

[Froge]

Hey guys, anyone mind if I poured my relevant problems on this thread?

This forum's close-knit community is definitely one of the things that attracted me here. Sure, as a newcomer, it might take a while to adapt and get recognized, but it's much, much better than what I encountered in the past, something that I can only describe as a "newfag" revolution. I was an oldie on this other forum (Wild Shadow, if anyone's ever heard of it) with a pretty high reputation until newcomers started migrating in and completely took over. I get annoyed to no end when new users come to a community and start acting like they own the place by judging all the older users and relentlessly refusing to listen to the oldies on what posts are good and which are bad (the mods couldn't do anything on that forum because none of them were breaking any rules). I had been lurking on FG forums for a while now and registered on the day that I got sick of my old forum.

With a more close-knit community, such "newcomer revolutions" aren't possible. There's no need to explain what is a quality post and what isn't, and if a newcomer barges into here and makes low quality posts, the authority of the oldies is enough to convince them to stop being so arrogant.