I'm entirely with Pat on this one. Give new members the benefit of the doubt, and make allowances for any perceived oddities or shortcomings, and then judge, if you must, when things have settled down.
This is, as someone pointed out, a motoring forum, but also a hugely entertaining and often instructive general chat forum, attracting a nice crowd of intelligent and amusing people.
It's not an exclusive club or some weird society with arcane initiation rites.
Nor do I see any need for some of the rude comments that have been made.
Gentle digs and a fun-poking are fine, like some of the Rattling good yarns or that one about AC having lost his marbles in the woodshed. :)
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