How long before "Newbie" status expires?

I reckon that you're no longer a newbie when you get up the courage to post on Banter and Brawl. That place scares me... :frown:

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Originally posted by Jess:
**I reckon that you're no longer a newbie when you get up the courage to post on Banter and Brawl. That place scares me...:frown:
**

Hmm, it isn't scary. Find your niche and plow through. If anyone flames you or disagrees, don't back down. You'll be accepted in no time.

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Hmm..... I never liked Banter & Brawl. It's too busy. I'll give it a go, for
fear of being a newbiem though. πŸ˜‰

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Fear not the dragon,
Fear not the wolf,
Fear not the warship,
Fear my Crescent Fighter.

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Originally posted by Jess:
**I reckon that you're no longer a newbie when you get up the courage to post on Banter and Brawl. That place scares me...:frown:
**

Why does it scare you? There's no reason to be scared of it. Be scared of Just Chat and htjyang and company. They're the ones who want to destory the world.

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Jonathan Swift

It's all that sex and violence.

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"Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things, well known fact."
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Originally posted by Jess:
**It's all that sex and violence.
**

Nuh-uh. The biggest posting of sex and violence was on THIS forum, not B&B.;

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Jonathan Swift

I wouldn't say being well known is a very big requirement for getting out of newbie status. I don't consider myself one, but I find it hard to believe many people know my name. It's something about what you have to say and how you say it. Captain skyblade was a newbie when he'd post just to say he didn't know the answer, but he was fairly well known pretty quickly. It's just how you handle yourself.

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Originally posted by wes:
**I wouldn't say being well known is a very big requirement for getting out of newbie status. I don't consider myself one, but I find it hard to believe many people know my name. It's something about what you have to say and how you say it. Captain skyblade was a newbie when he'd post just to say he didn't know the answer, but he was fairly well known pretty quickly. It's just how you handle yourself.

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Excellent point. Now that you bring that up, I think one shouldn't have to get people's attention to stop being a newbie. Oh, and for all those afraid of big bad B&B;, I have two totally benign topics running there at the moment that you're welcome to check out. πŸ™‚

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Originally posted by forge:
**Everybody is a newbie in one way or another. I really doubt that any one person here can be tops above everybody else in everything.

And for some reason my screen looks like it's on the ceiling right now, this is very weird.

**

I am above everyone else in everything, havn't you learned that yet forge πŸ˜‰

Seriously, it's all maturity. My advice to you guys who are still fretting about this is to wait a few months, and then ask again (in your head). Odds are you'll know the answer then.

CS

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Originally posted by Jess:
**I reckon that you're no longer a newbie when you get up the courage to post on Banter and Brawl. That place scares me...:(

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And with very good reason. Avoid that place if you want to feel good about yourself...

_bomb

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Originally posted by forge:
**Nuh-uh. The biggest posting of sex and violence was on THIS forum, not B &B.;
**

Um... please don't mention my Pax Station bar again..

(if you're not talkin bout my pax bar, then forget i just said that.....)

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Originally posted by -REDCHIGH-:
**I was just wondering, i know that the term newbie doesn't necesarily mean the number of posts, so i am just curious. How long before im not a newbie anymore? I seem to remember the definition of newbie expiring when you have the respect of fellow board members.

please no spam, and stay on topic. i really wanna know..... am i a newbie?

πŸ˜• πŸ˜• πŸ˜• πŸ˜• πŸ˜• πŸ˜• πŸ˜• πŸ˜•

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Actually it varies from person to person. To me, anyone who hasn't been around for 6 months is a newbie, and anyone who visited the old boards is an oldie.

There is no definition of a newbie.

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heheh, I wasnt a newbie for the summer of 2000, and then all these newbies started coming along and shoving everyone else to different boards, oh well,

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(This message has been edited by Soviet mikee (edited 04-28-2001).)

I went to B+B, and opened a topic (completely at random) called 'own your own cotton mouse'. I am now very afraid of that board.

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"Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things, well known fact."
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Hmmm...... I stayed away from that one.

Try "Ares Board Game". Just post a single word related to what someone else said. It isn't scary.

PS: I couldn't get Tigana. Sorry...

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Fear not the dragon,
Fear not the wolf,
Fear not the warship,
Fear my Crescent Fighter.

why is everyone scared of B&B;? it's not that harsh, at least, not when im happy, but fear what you want to, even if it's just a bunch of raving lunatics, some with no power over you and others with karmasticks...

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what have I become, my sweetest friend. Everyone I know goes away, in the end

Oh wait, karmasticks hurt, especially when wielded by raving lunatics, but I shouldnt be afraid, because everyone love me on the B&B; board, in fact, you might say im some of a legend. Ahhhh, im so full of it arent i? Oh well, i hate you all too

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what have I become, my sweetest friend. Everyone I know goes away, in the end

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Originally posted by SilverDragon:
**PS: I couldn't get Tigana. Sorry...

**

Yeah, it is hard to get hold of. But anyway, it's 688 pages long with tiny writing, and it's the most distressing book I've ever read. I doubt you would be able to cope πŸ˜„

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"Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things, well known fact."
-Granny Weatherwax

<grrrrrr>

Jess, I can easily cope with that. Have you read Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time? 4000 pages, tiny
writing, and also distressing.

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Fear not the dragon,
Fear not the wolf,
Fear not the warship,
Fear my Crescent Fighter.

You know I just posted that to annoy you :). 4000 pages? I'm impressed.

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"Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things, well known fact."
-Granny Weatherwax