# Does this forum base classify people as "regs" or "newfags?" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 11, 2012, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-forum-base-classify-people-as-regs-or-newfags/627877 "2012-07-11T07:04:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-forum-base-classify-people-as-regs-or-newfags/627877/41 "2012-07-11T23:12:45Z")
We don’t have anything so formal, but many posters seem to be more prone to roll their eyes at someone with a recent join date who posts something dumb. My stodgy advice: -Don’t post in a thread that’s been inactive for several years. The bulk of our “zombie threads” are revived by newbies, and it’s built up a bit of bad will toward them over the years. It’s an honest mistake, but it gets annoying. Feel free to start a new thread on the same topic, though. -Avoid starting BBQ Pit threads about specific posters until you get a feel for who’s who (e.g. [don’t pit **Skald the Rhymer**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=657885)). -Avoid /b/-inspired mannerisms like the -fag suffix. ---
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-forum-base-classify-people-as-regs-or-newfags/627877/42 "2012-07-11T23:23:06Z")
Sorry to quibble but I think _fags_ is the base word and _new_- is a prefix. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-forum-base-classify-people-as-regs-or-newfags/627877/43 "2012-07-11T23:28:04Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Here we’re either “smart and hip”, or a “total dipstick”. Didn’t **Hal Briston** ’s sig used to be “Smart, hip, dipstick”, or something like that? ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-forum-base-classify-people-as-regs-or-newfags/627877/44 "2012-07-11T23:44:02Z")
“Regs”? My name starts with “Reg”, so I guess you could call me reg… but if you do, I hope you’ve lived a long, full life without regrets. As to “newfags”, new or old, it means more women for me. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-forum-base-classify-people-as-regs-or-newfags/627877/45 "2012-07-11T23:44:37Z")
You would do well to lurk moar, young grasshopper. Do lizards eat grasshoppers? It seems like they would. ---
**Author:** ![D-bear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@D-bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D-bear)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-forum-base-classify-people-as-regs-or-newfags/627877/46 "2012-07-12T01:30:31Z")
> [@Yeticus\_Rex](#): > > Well, we got…Trolls, Socks, Spammers, Semen Cookers, Tin-Foil Hatters, Evil Blimp Destroyers, One-Time 20 Minute Trenchers, 1920s Style Death Rayers, Goat Felchers, Charter Goat Felchers, Pie Bringers…oh, and Hi Opalists. > > Nope, no Newfags here…what are those, BTW? Does Nabisco make them? You forgot “Lurkers” of which I’m one… But I have posted more lately, so I guess I’m a semi-lurker… ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-forum-base-classify-people-as-regs-or-newfags/627877/47 "2012-07-12T01:35:04Z")
I’m classified as a “normalcool” ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-forum-base-classify-people-as-regs-or-newfags/627877/48 "2012-07-12T02:20:59Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > There is a thread in Great Debates about whether it is even possible to be a newfag unless you are a newborn and newborns don’t post much here. Lots of us think they were always that way and we break down the science to back up that assertion. Would it be against board rules for me to let Lil’ Neville post, or at least contribute to a post, once I bring her home from the hospital? I doubt it, or at least suspect it isn’t a banning offense, since the Neville kitties have contributed to posts of mine before, and they’re under 13. Though I don’t think the term “fag” is generally used to describe females, gay or straight, and we won’t know our baby’s sexual orientation for several years in any case, so I guess she still wouldn’t count as a newfag. ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-forum-base-classify-people-as-regs-or-newfags/627877/49 "2012-07-12T03:21:46Z")
> [@The\_Lizard\_of\_Oz](#): > > Every single forum base I’ve been to has, and I swear, if this site does, I… I don’t know what I’ll do. > > I’ll obliterate you all with a laser gun and lots of mirrors. Stare deep into the eyes of the person you see in that mirror. Pick up your laser gun. You know what to do next, I hope… ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-forum-base-classify-people-as-regs-or-newfags/627877/50 "2012-07-12T03:31:00Z")
> [@Yeticus\_Rex](#): > > Well, we got…Trolls, Socks, Spammers, Semen Cookers, Tin-Foil Hatters, Evil Blimp Destroyers, One-Time 20 Minute Trenchers, 1920s Style Death Rayers, Goat Felchers, Charter Goat Felchers, Pie Bringers…oh, and Hi Opalists. > > Nope, no Newfags here…what are those, BTW? Does Nabisco make them? You forgot “sheep fuckers” \ **Hal Briston** \ … Excuse me, please, I got something caught in my throat… ;)😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-forum-base-classify-people-as-regs-or-newfags/627877/51 "2012-07-12T03:37:16Z")
> [@PSXer](#): > > I’m classified as a “normalcool” Only in your own mind, dude. ---
**Author:** ![SubaRhubarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@SubaRhubarb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SubaRhubarb)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-forum-base-classify-people-as-regs-or-newfags/627877/52 "2012-07-12T03:42:28Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > Didn’t **Hal Briston** ’s sig used to be “Smart, hip, dipstick”, or something like that? \*\*liue’s \*\*: Hal Briston * * * Smart. Hip. Reeks of Sheep Dip. ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-forum-base-classify-people-as-regs-or-newfags/627877/53 "2012-07-12T06:38:01Z")
I was going to invite my parentfags to the boards, but now seems like a bad time. I’d just hate for them to be both lonerfags and geriatri-fags at the same time. They don’t even smoke. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-forum-base-classify-people-as-regs-or-newfags/627877/54 "2012-07-12T08:41:06Z")
> [@PSXer](#): > > I’m classified as a “normalcool” I guess I’m a “cisreg” then. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-forum-base-classify-people-as-regs-or-newfags/627877/55 "2012-07-12T17:39:07Z")
Well, we got…Trolls, Socks, Spammers, Semen Cookers, Tin-Foil Hatters, Evil Blimp Destroyers, One-Time 20 Minute Trenchers, 1920s Style Death Rayers, _Lurkers, Semi-Lurkers, Sheep Fuckers_, Goat Felchers, Charter Goat Felchers, Pie Bringers…oh, and Hi Opalists. My apologies for leaving off roughly 40% of the member base. ---
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-forum-base-classify-people-as-regs-or-newfags/627877/56 "2012-07-12T17:46:51Z")
> [@dnooman](#): > > I was going to invite my parentfags to the boards, but now seems like a bad time. I’d just hate for them to be both lonerfags and geriatri-fags at the same time. They don’t even smoke. Make them Spryfags. Old people like “spry.” ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-forum-base-classify-people-as-regs-or-newfags/627877/57 "2012-07-12T18:16:56Z")
I self-identify as a ‘smartass’ – emphasis on the ‘ass’. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-forum-base-classify-people-as-regs-or-newfags/627877.md?page=2)