Every user that has high karma/reputation/whatever on a site - including this one - should be forced to experience it from a noob's perspective once in a while.

Every user that has high karma/reputation/whatever on a site - including this one - should be forced to experience it from a noob's perspective once in a while. It can be a real eye-opener, as the experience for the in-group and the out-group can be almost totally different. How many times have even regular users of a site - not just noobs - pointed out a problem only to be downvoted, harassed, or even banned by the "senior users" who don't see the problem precisely because they are so senior? They're like the "senior architects" on a software project, who no longer contribute actual code (or novel opinions on this side of the analogy) but always sit in judgment of others'. I guess it's a universal human tendency, but the point is that karma systems should be designed to attenuate it instead of reinforcing it.