To be fair, if you make the guy feel like complete and utter crap you're going to eventually prove yourself right.

Was that honestly so satisfactory Valco? Whoopdeedoo, you kept the "logical order" or whatever and killed off a clan and ruined a new member. You know what? He's going to remember, this, and he won't be likely to refer fans of the game to our community in the future. Great. We lost a potential member and furthermore, a potential member source. Why? Because you decided to be a dick to him. This wasn't even a guy who called the community the worst on the internet, and he wasn't a babbling incoherent mook like IconGuy was when he first joined. He just wanted to have fun playing the game in its highly-competitive form. Who cares if the clan failed, if he liked the community he would stayed and probably join another clan. OH NOEZ! CAN'T LET THAT HAPPEN!! WE HAVE TO HAVE A COMPLETE STRANGLEHOLD ON TEH JAY JAY TOOO CLAYN ZENE!! NO NEWBIES ALLUD ELITZ ONLY. He was even willing to duel in JJ2 over a nick, come on guys. That was awesome. I don't care if he was going to lose, you don't find that kind of full-stop (admittably, sometimes stupid) determination on something every day.

Why is that so wrong?
This kind of elitism is why we can never afford nice things like the Dinkleburgs >(