> My suggestion was to remove this "disclaimer", which serves no
> positive purpose and is simply a gratuitous snub to frequent posters.

How about removing the stats entirely?

They certainly aren't improving the signal-to-noise ratio for me. 
Plus, there's a good segment of the population who don't appreciate
these weekly posts:  when I asked how people would feel if I posted
regularly offering help to nubies and pointing them to several good
nuby resources (my tutorial among them), the response was sufficiently
negative.  (In summary, the argument against was:  "This isn't the
right place for that.")

I hardly think this is more helpful to the Ruby community.

How about moving the stats onto a website somewhere?

Chris