Again: moderation concerns are to be directed to the moderator her/himself, the moderation team concerned, the Senior Moderators or the Community Director. This has been mentioned, is in the "sticky" and will be enforced in accordance with those.
JDiver, Senior Moderator/Moderator: American AAdvantage, iDine, and Talkboard Topics
But IMO, the crux of the matter was addressed by
seanthepilot:
We owe it to ourselves to bring the snarkiness tone down.
The single and most effective way to both show newbies what behaviors we want from newbies and to assure a welcoming , informative and respectful forum is to model those behaviors ourselves.