In my experience, this has been the case on every discussion site. Slashdot is another prime example of a site where people hit each other over the head with th

In my experience, this has been the case on every discussion site. Slashdot is another prime example of a site where people hit each other over the head with the size of their UINs. It's a bit childish because being around on the site longer doesn't magically make posts better, I think it's best to be wary of discrimination of new users, otherwise only the morons will stick around. Which is exactly the quality drop people are tring to avoid :)