One surefire way to tell a vet?
When even newbies such as myself call you by your earlier name that you've since changed and we've never seen before! *cough cough Asia! cough cough*
Anyway, I guess I would see the "pecking order" as newbie, regular, veteran, oldbie. Actually, I almost think of oldbie as someone who was here in earlier days but not as involved anymore. Vets, though, retain involvement (or has gotten reinvolved) over the years.
And of course n00b (to be distinguished from newbie, it must be said!) is a perpetual state for the infantile until they finally decide to come to maturity.
