To be more direct,newbies are not recognized in this forum,and this ugly trend is not a welcome development to this community.
If you watch very well,you will observed that old guys here always focus on the mistakes newbies made thereby neglecting the quality posts of newbies.
You can't tell that all the posts demoted jr members have are useless to the extent of not getting even 1 merit.
Some demoted jr members have more than one hundred posts and activity made in different days /months ,yet no merit has been given to them.
The question is ,how do newbies attain to high rank if this trend continue ?
For one they can read the thread they are posting in and quoting and replying to opinions you disagree with and making an intelligent argument against them rather than just posting a vague paragraph long rant that does nothing but parrot the Op. It is abundantly clear that you did not read this entire thread before posting.
Secondly as to the bolded, I have seen no such thing. If you feel unwelcome its maybe because rather than trying to become part of the community you have decided to make the community conform to you.
See, I did it up there to show you how. ^^^