After playing Ultima Online, Quake 1 and 2, UT, UT2k3/4, and a few more I can't stand to hear the newbie coments.
First off, I came from the Quake 1 days where 'newbie' was used not as an insult, but as a question. Hell my first 3 hours on Quake 1 where spent with a clan of guys teaching me the game.
Now a few years later, newbie, noobie, noob are insults used by 14 year old Counter-Strike players. Well along with there rants on gays, your mother and father and the like. Sorry but an old gamer like myself does miss the days where online play was fun, and not being a babysitter.