On 6/16/06, Mark Gallagher m.g.gallagher@student.canberra.edu.au wrote:
From the famous Herostratus RfA: "There's no excuse to not use the warning templates for users vandalising, especially IP users."
And the perpetrator of this idiotic statement is, according to his userpage, an RC patroller (although, blessedly, not apparently a member of CVU).
Once we were worried about the newbie contingent getting so large that new users were in fact starting to consider themselves old hands and influencing Wikipedia (see: CVU admins, userbox fiasco). It's gone beyond that, now: these days, the newbies are offering *advice* to more clueful users, and expecting it to be taken.
Frankly, I can't believe you are getting so worked up over this. Life would probably be a lot less stressful for you if you didn't take this personally. They think they are doing the right thing, after all.
Ryan