Make all the old sad hams foad. Be nice and respond signs we don't know.

Those old guys are often rude to people who don't already know everything. Not all of them, but most of them.

Nothing made me want to quit more as a noob than when I'd key up on a repeater I knew I was 5-9s on to crickets then 30 seconds later someone announces they just jumped in their truck to a chorus of responses.

I told off an old guy at a meeting for doing that, shocked and embarrassed looks all around that someone called him on it.

Every person they are rude to increases the odds their hobby dies with them.