That's just how it perceived. Take the next example...
This was in reply to Brad suggesting he'd make a good mod I believe?
I agree, Brad being a mod would promote any female who signed up regardless of whether they had something to contribute to the forum or not, he'd then persist in spamming the forum with countless threads about them. Weaste went over the top over a thread about someone who had died and people saying "RIP", he then went over the top about the changes added to the caf and was promptly banned, according to this thread he should thus have had to been demoted back to the newbies in order to "prove" himself again. According to Jason everyone is anti American and often spams serious debates in the Current Events forum with muppetry about how America is perceived as evil and adds little else to the debate.
These are just a handfull of cases of people in this very thread talking about an elitest forum, which IMO would just go to highlight the flaws in everyone including themselves. Lets not even go to mention the first Tevez thread, how many in here participated in that wihout adding anything of value? I have my flaws also, but at least i'm not claiming to be a saint.
It's not just newbies that have lowered that bar.