I know many project managers that handles good projects such as Jamalezaz, bounty detective, and many others most of them are either hero members or legend, I believe they have enough experience to handle it mere considering their ranks, not to say the rank is the only criteria to be a good project manager.i always doubt those project starters with newbie ranks.is it that they decide to use a new forum page,or were the restarting after being hacked or disqualified or how come a new be is handling a project? This are few questions that comes to my mind about newbie managers.
Sometimes even big things do not really matter and on the other side even smaller things can result in collapse of a project. So while selecting a project i look for a cummulative win for the project with major factors as project, team, use cases and first impression. So for me thread from a new account does not really matter obviously if there is nothing suspicious about it.