I've never once seen a Hyperion mentor discriminated against only for his mentor status.
Nor ever in any primal data centre instance.

The only thing that comes close is people giving sprouts the benefit of the doubt when they mess up a mechanic or two. It's easy to forgive newbies afterall.

Seems every topic about the novice network makes me like my own servers that much more. While it's not without it's spurts of drama it's certainly not as bad as some people claim theirs is.