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Some time back I too thought that this place was becoming more unfriendly, but then later I gave some thought to the fact that since my time here there have been over 75,000 new members. Now I just counted 13 master coders and 43 advanced coders in about 20 pages of the member list before I got bored.

At last check there were 112,131 members, and if we make the assumption that there are 100 'experienced' coders here, the numbers show that (112,131 members - 100 'experienced' coders) / 100 'experienced' coders => 1 'experienced' coder for every 1,120 members.

Even if we assume that, of the 365 pages currently in the member list, there are (13 + 43) = 56 'experienced' coders every 20 pages, that'd be a total of 1,022 'experienced' coders so (112,131 members - 1,022 'experienced' coders) / 1,022 'experienced' coders => 1 'experienced' coder for every 108 members.

Caveat: 'experienced' coder is based on 'master coder' or 'advanced coder' title alone, so please don't feel offended if you are experienced but have a different user title.

While it's not an excuse to be rude, the point is that this site is growing, and in the time it took to compose this message, there have been 15 new members.