The interesting thing about our "clique" is that we are not exclusive. Sure, the same people mostly post over and over here, address each other by name, and confuse new posters, but we also never forget that our thread is on the "Welcome to the DIS" board, and we *are* welcoming. No one is ever ignored unless they just immediately express an unwillingness to know or care about the general topic of the thread (
LGMHPC!!!) and we have a lot of young (low post count) members who come to feel like old pros here. Whereas we do kind of have our own language on this thread, I don't think we use it to alienate newcomers or make them feel as if they can't come into the fold.
You know, in terms of what the thread is mostly about (sure, there's a lot of chit chat, but we always come back to
LGMHPC 
) and our language and abbreviations, perhaps we should have a FAQ that could be pointed to when people come along wanting to know what the discussion is about and what the heck we're saying when we type, for instance, "That HD CM caught me serpentining toward the LGMHPC, but I distracted him, swiped 22 anyway, got out to the parking lot to take inventory, and avoided DISjail"

We used to be able to say "Go back and read the thread"
, but now that we're about 150 pages into it, that's getting be be a little unreasonable.