Nope. I prefer the "citizen contributor" of FR past. The newbies tend to be trolls, blog pimps or aspiring journalists.
There sure is a lot of that.
Remember when you could refresh the page and there might have been one new article? But it was an article not some bloggers opinion.
What they don't get is, I sit here and think "Who are these people and why do they believe that I care what they think? And they simply post their opinion and walk away from any discussion. I believe the term I'm searching for is "self-important". :-)