When is a newbie no longer a newbie?

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Kstme

Saturday, December 29, 2001 - 09:31 am Click here to edit this post
I'm an oldie...sometimes I feel like a newbie...I've been around since BB1 (where's Chicken George? bawk, bawk)

I think what causes some of the feelings of "newbieism" is part of every board/chat/discussion group on the internet. It's sometimes like the first day at a new school. Not sure where your nitch is.

The group of people here at TVCH are some of the most understanding, helpful, caring, terrific (all those that just broke their arms patting themselves on the back report to ER) people I've ever had the pleasure of posting with!

Now I feel so guilty for not posting for the last two weeks...sobbing uncontrollably here... I'll be better...it's almost a New Year and ANDERSON IS A HOTTIE AND HE'S GOING TO BE BACK SOON!!!

Twiggyish

Saturday, December 29, 2001 - 03:43 pm Click here to edit this post
Kstme, I hope so!

Ems

Tuesday, January 01, 2002 - 11:35 am Click here to edit this post
Well guys reminber if I ever stop posting for more then a month think that I am eather dead or I have beeen kincked out lol!

Whit4you

Thursday, March 14, 2002 - 08:06 pm Click here to edit this post
Before I get confused by other answers- gonna answer this before reading this thread.

You know your NOT a newbie, when you know who IS a newbie.... the day basically that YOU know are a part of a group enough to recoginize someone ELSE as a newbie...your no longer a newbie. :)

To anyone who's joined here in the past few months - they'll think of me as a newbie....and with the rate of cultural change in a group such as this, I will be breifly...a newbie again - because per my above expliation it will be a while before I know who the newbies ARE....>:)

Some people in some online cultures however use "newbie" in derogatory way... to me a newbie is not a negative thing - newbies are the blood that keeps the heart of a online group pumping..:)

Whit

Whit4you

Thursday, March 14, 2002 - 08:08 pm Click here to edit this post
Kep - your not a newbie....lol. As I said I'm a newbie again but if *I* know someone THEY can't be a newbie <grin>

Whit4you

Thursday, March 14, 2002 - 08:10 pm Click here to edit this post
There's one other thing - you guys missed..and that is - your not a newbie when you KNOW the "inside jokes" and "special language" of a group. It's really really tough at first being new to a group because you do feel like an outsider...and all the inside jokes and speical terms used enforce that feeling. I've been gone so long I dont know some of the new "inside jokes" and "lingo" - lol.

Thats why I made a point last year of making a thread just to explain our lingo here. :)

Whit

Oregonfire

Thursday, March 14, 2002 - 08:22 pm Click here to edit this post
Hi Whit! I don't know if you remember me, but I remember you! :) Welcome back.

See if you can pass the newbie/oldie test: What or who is the original source of the following catchphrase?

IT'S AAAAAWWWWWNNNN!!!!

Whit4you

Thursday, March 14, 2002 - 08:35 pm Click here to edit this post
Yes of course I remember you lol...

LOL - um Monica on BB2...do I win the prize?

Oregonfire

Thursday, March 14, 2002 - 08:41 pm Click here to edit this post
(Oregonfire consults with the judges) Will we accept that?

(pause)

Yes, Monica or Krista would be a correct answer. Ding Ding Ding!(applause)

Sunriverose

Thursday, March 14, 2002 - 08:50 pm Click here to edit this post
Hello everyone, I've also been gone for a while, it's nice to see so many familiar faces still here. I started about 3 weeks into BB2. And, speaking of Monica, does anyone know if she got her quilt?

I'll be lurking around throughout survivor, and warming up for BB3. Go BB!!!!!

Donut

Friday, March 15, 2002 - 10:34 am Click here to edit this post
hey survivor rose, we started about the same time, and welcome back to you and whit! i wouldnt mind seeing that lingo thing again whit. i dont think i still know any of it!

Fruitbat

Friday, March 15, 2002 - 11:33 am Click here to edit this post
I have been here since the beginning and I don't get some inside jokes either. It is impossible for me to read every thread or connect with all who post even in the threads to which I contribute.

All you have to do is ask what is going on or just join in. There are no exclusive relationships here. It is as in real life. There are people you fall in step with immediately. Sometimes it is just a matter of what time you find yourself on the board or shared experience, sense of humor, point of view, anything.

There is just not enough time reach out to everyone. Trust that all here are willing to converse and are open to meeting new posters.

The internet is vast and there will be some random oddballs but they are not that plentiful.

Sabbatia

Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 09:44 pm Click here to edit this post
I've been here since BB last summer, but I just discovered the discussion boards and member folders today!! I mean, I read the bb and survivor discussions, but I never knew the others existed. Soooooo I've been around awhile, but I've been blind. Does that make me a newbie or just another blond?

Weinermr

Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 09:50 pm Click here to edit this post
<Weinermr wonders if he is a random oddball. Realizes he already knows the answer, and smiles>

Juju2bigdog

Monday, March 18, 2002 - 08:42 am Click here to edit this post
Weinermr, you are not the least bit odd. Don't you even think like that!

<spins head backwards>