okay..my 2 cents...
1. Elitist: I've yet to have really met anyone on the org that comes across as this. To be sure..I've heard stories, but from personal expericance, no. And what Fluxmeister said about being around friends at cons. I have to agree with. Now if you end up making friends with Random creator #77887 while there, great! But for the most part, people tend to stick in groups of people that they know and are comforatble with. That way, if you glomp someone (in my case at least

) you have no fear of having a restraining order issued agianst you!
2: As far as how a person acts online and IRL..well, I have to agree with AD. It's easy for someone to be all loud and showy online, but many times when you meet that person face to face, your actually surprised at how low key they really are ( and as to all things, there are exceptions to this rule! LOL)
3: As an AMV creator I try to help out people as much as possible. Even though I'm by no means a Premire master, I do try to watch betas of vids, offer feedback on those, and if a software question pops up that I do know the answer to, I try to help in that way, as well as give reveiws, even if they're not as long winded as MJ's are...
I think what really gets to me on the reviews, and it goes along with what Wired Knight said about video taste..is that my first has over 700 hits that I know of...and only 5 reveiws. Now, I'll be the first to tell you that the vid is not great..as it was a first attempt...but only 5 reveiws? Out of 700? Surely more than just 5 people had opinions on it...Even if it wasn't something you personaly liked. Granted. I owe my own fair share of reveiws, but as a general rule I try to get them done within a week of seeing the vid...even if the vid wasn't something I particully cared for.
4: Cons and AMV contest....I've yet to have been to a con, or had a vid in one either....but hopefully that will be different come 2003....in the meantime..I can only say that even if my vid was only shown at a con, I'd be tickeled to death! And floored if one ever won anything. I think I'd be to happy/shocked to worry about lording it over anyone.
Overall, I think the AMV creators of the ORG are all around generally good people. Sure we have our tiffs and differences, but that's to be expected in any large group of people.
And that's just MHO....