Back in my day, we just called that hazing, and everything was fine. Until CWM accidentally killed a n00b and Dames cracked down on that kind of stuff. Now, you can't even force a new pledge/poster to spell-check his stuff without some kind of backlash from the mod staff.
Also, back in my day, we walked ten miles both ways to post. Uphill. In the snow. Though in Dave's day, you had to fight dinosaurs as well.