I agree with Toby. It's clear condescension, and like 3 times in the same sentence. Clearly, people can get snippy from time to time (I mean, it's friggin' cold up here). There were other things such as "save the straw man argument" the other day as well, which sort of caught our attention. Valpo, you know I really respect you, but I do know that it's been a pattern for you to quite often stand up for people who we tell to cool it. And by that, I certainly don't mean you do it ALL the time, just often enough that it makes me think that you might be sort of seeking that kind of thing out. Unfortunately, when a user like Pete catches our attention (not saying he's a bad guy, just comes off more blunt than the atmosphere we try to promote), we'll tend to take more notice posts by that particular person. Personally, when I see flagrant things like "LOL - YO - hellooooo....", I'll call people out no matter if it's a newbie or an old-bie, someone's opinion I agree with, or someone's opinion I don't agree with. It doesn't mean that we're going to come down on every snarky comment on the site, but this was over the top. We really do our best here to treat people even-handedly, and yeah, we probably do give some more leeway to members who've been around longer, just because I think they've earned the benefit of the doubt.