Well the VIP group is a completely different thing. Someone may become a VIP really quickly (I became one after less then a week). and people also lose their VIP status (look at R Havell - he's been into and out off the VIP group a few times now).
And I doubt most people go and look in the profile of someone they start agruing about (and even so...). Spammers can make it to 1000 posts within two months (I should know). If a person is on the site for two months - that's not really a long time, but can already have more posts then a regular member with 2 posts daily (in a year that would be 730 posts). And who would know more about the site?
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