It certainly feels weird to have it set up this way, because new players get pounded in the face by seasoned vets (not just people with PvP gear, but people who've played PvP games before, whereas new players probably haven't even done that) and there's no real threshold that it stops happening at. In WoW for instance, if you were new or sucked or did poorly, you dropped down and got queued with people in a similar situation.

I don't think I've had many people rage in my games at all, unless someone is doing something totally wrong (BLM with 0 damage, anyone?) or comes in with level 30 gear on, which IMO you deserve to get harassed over, because that's just irritating and offensive to your team. One guy in a game I had just now was wearing a meteor survivor ring and a Aetherite ring as a Paladin, come on. If you're not there to PvP seriously, don't queue, you're not going to have fun and neither is your team.