I understand where you're coming from. Making an uber seems to be a big trend recently. Now that you can get gag credit twice as fast (with the invasions) it's easier than ever.
I liked being sure that going in with an uber would guarantee going in with a good player, but I haven't noticed newer ubers to be much lesser players than the old ones. Some aren't great, but most aren't too terrible. Like you said, the bad ones don't last too long, at least.
I don't think people should be barred from making ubers based on the laff of their first toon. I basically agree with you- the ones with the 50 laffers as their highest toon get bored too quickly to actually make a real uber. The ones that go all the way are usually the good players to begin with.
I'd still rather go with one of the semi-ubers than one of the gagless 30 laffers shuffling at the VP elevator every day.
