As a new player to this game, I think perhaps many of the vets are taking their place in the wet shaving community for granted. I spent my fair share of time on the wiki and reading old posts even before I became a member. When you do become a member though, it's no fun to just read a wiki page and look at old posts. When you don't know much but want to get involved, you want to post on threads, start your own, and basically join the community. If all the noobs just read the wiki until they were experts and had what vets consider worthy opinions, we wouldn't have a single post for a year! While many vets know other members and have an identity, new members are basically nobodies. We want to meet people and join the community as well.

I think perhaps vets should keep in mind that conversation and debate is the essence of a forum. The wiki is clearly posted and somewhat easy to navigate, but sometimes it's nice to add your voice to the wealth of information on SRP, even if it isn't perfect.

One bit of advice I do have is to maybe remove the "Junior Member" tag under a new member's name. I'll admit I did my fair share of searching for threads I could post on just to get that bumped up to "Member". I think it kind of points new users out unnecessarily, especially since their number of posts are there anyways. It might alleviate things if it just said "Member" by default. One last thing is that SRP is a fairly intimidating forum. Most vets here are experts on many aspects of straight razor shaving, so for new members it's difficult to find threads to post on without seeming stupid or just repeating information on the wiki.

Just my 2 cents! This is a great resource and a rare thing on the internet and I don't think we should stifle conversation out of annoyance