I'm a noob of 18 months, but I don't think it's necessarily a popularity thing.. Players old or new that are outspoken and always around are the ones that get known.. Not sure if that makes them 'popular' or just more recognised..?
There is no such thing as new school and old school. We are all just players playing a game on our phones/tablets/ipods . Some of us may have more experience on the game, some of you may not have much experience. To assemble a dissimulative name for people based on how long someone has played is ridiculous.
I agree with Ahlie. ? I do also believe I'm one or the people who makes random and overall useless threads. I don't usually get reprimanded for it tho, if that makes me popular I won't complain. But saying that, I do know that I'm never against any random or useless thread on forums and I'm certainly not gonna go and look at someone's profile and then judge them. Lol no.... That's just pointless. I do sometimes have negative comments if I disagree with sine thing and I enjoy posting gifs that mock idiots. and there are idiots at all stat levels, and idiots with good grammar (typos don't define people or their threads).
Oh and old school players are awesome. and they'd probably farm US into reset, before we got to them