I think it's kind of gone the other way now too. If someone "brags" about having joined MENSA I'd pretty much roll my eyes.

Reminds me of this Feynman rant about honor groups:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3164300309410618119#...

It's really not very difficult to get into MENSA. The test is about the equivalent of a US public school gifted program. I think the "average" hackernews user would pass without much of a problem. It's far more difficult (and prestigious in my opinion) to get into YCombinator.

If you're looking to meet interesting and intelligent people, you're probably better off finding a community oriented website with content that appeals to you and going to meet ups. Personally I would much prefer an HN meetup to a MENSA gathering.

I joined Mensa back in high school because they held cocktail parties... The most enjoyable part of the Mensa experience for me was taking the test - there were a couple of lousy (IMHO) questions, and unlike other exams with practical consequences, I felt free to write my (possibly totally off-base) criticisms on the exam.

Let's not bash MENSA too much. Their login page has a great new UI:

http://www.mensa.org//loginaction.php?action=error&acc=1... the new Mensa, now XSS compatible!')</script>

I sent them an email, let's see how long they take to fix it.