not to start old vs new member war here... but frankly speaking djrock is opening little too many threads as he is little too curious.
but about the old member issue yes there are bullies here, sadly. it's not 2010 anymore... when i joined, or even before that... ~2008~2009 BG was quite good at welcoming people because there were many awesome senior members, but they eventually stop browsing because personal lives... some of them stopped using BG because of the bullies/toxic behavior, a few of them were banned because they were bullies/they were disobeying moderators. now a days we have like 20 regular members mostly fighting amd vs nvidia war or whatever...