Well, 'Scums vintage forum can be a little intimidating to a lot of folks. I tend to think the "inner circle" of guys (the TRG/Archive crowd) are definitely tight-knit and obviously the most knowledgeable in the world on the subject matter. I think most of them are pretty good guys too.
But there's also a lot of other folks who collect the vintage line, but just on a more casual basis - like just the regular figures. But their knowledge, and sometimes questions/thoughts, are rather elementary compared to the stuff the diehards get into. So you've got two rather distinct subsets within the vintage realm, which really aren't meant to blend together so much. It's like trying to merge an advanced calculus class full of students with a pre-algebra class. Rather tricky.
I kinda think of the serious vintage guys as the Varsity team, while most of the rest of us more casual vintage collectors are on the freshman/sophmore team. I'm sure if a freshman got stuck with the varsity guys, he might come off as rather annoying, untalented, incapable, uninformed, uncoached. But hopefully with a little patience, the varsity guys can usually do some general coaching of the youngin' to get him into better vintage collecting shape.
Anyway, enough of the analogies. There should just be two different vintage forums over there: Basic Vintage ("Vintage for Dummies"), and Avid Vintage (the professionals).