I can understand you completely. I debate constantly with people, mostly on YouTube more than anywhere else, but still. And I would love to see our debates, because I am also similar to you in that I never give up in the debate. I refuse to end it and I refuse to give in. lol. I can be very stubborn and I can argue as long as the other person can argue. It's either a gift or a curse. I argue more about things that are ridiculous, un-needed, or stupidity. I just debate on the things I know a whole lot about.
It seems here they don't really differentiate newb and n00b. I see them used as the same term all the time, and I can't stand that. Someone called me a n00b once, and I took that offensively because I had always known the term to be someone who was basically a bumpkin who didn't know which way was up. But in the Sonic forums, you're not going to find people any ruder than the people who frequent them. I mean, the meanest, rudest people I have ever met have gone there, and Sonic forums were the first forums that I ever started to visit. I guess that's where I get my knowledge from. If you were to prove that you were not a n00b, then you had to type like you had sense and use good grammar and show that you were competant enough to add 2 plus 2. Those Sonic forums were WAY more strict than PC, but PC is strict, yet nice enough to make it enjoyable.