# For how long is one a newbie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 14, 2001, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-how-long-is-one-a-newbie/72508 "2001-07-14T20:52:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-how-long-is-one-a-newbie/72508/1 "2001-07-14T20:52:50Z")
Having registered today I obviously am one. But for how long? Give us a rough idea, are we talking months, years, decades? ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-how-long-is-one-a-newbie/72508/2 "2001-07-14T21:01:52Z")
I’d tell ya, but then the Secret Cabal would come after me. Oh, I’ve probably said too much already… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-how-long-is-one-a-newbie/72508/3 "2001-07-14T21:02:19Z")
Well, the thing is… You are a newbie until you establish an identity all your own. Could be in ten posts, could be in a thousand. And welcome to this community. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Scotti ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-how-long-is-one-a-newbie/72508/4 "2001-07-14T21:07:28Z")
Compared to **handy**? For another 9,993 posts. [sub]did he ever hit 10,000? If he did, where was the post?[/sub] Seriously, I still have moments that I feel like a newbie, lost in the crowd, but I mostly lost that when I started posting/reading fairly often. ---
**Author:** ![saepiroth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@saepiroth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saepiroth)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-how-long-is-one-a-newbie/72508/5 "2001-07-14T21:16:38Z")
i think he was planning to post his 10,000 yesterday (friday the 13; he wanted the aura of mistique!) but for all i know he’s still at 9,999. since the counter should be able to reach somwhere about 63,000, he just stopped posting at 9,999. I don’t know why. ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-how-long-is-one-a-newbie/72508/6 "2001-07-14T21:18:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lsura \* > **Compared to handy? > [sub]did he ever hit 10,000? If he did, where was the post?[/sub]** Nope… **Handy** still has 9999 posts. His last post was a week ago, I think, on the 7th. Did he leave the boards? (I check to see if he’s hit 10K every single day. Obsessive? Possibly ;)) ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-how-long-is-one-a-newbie/72508/7 "2001-07-14T21:24:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by PookahMacPhellimey \* > \*\* > how long? \*\* [mom voice on] antoher Twenty minutes [mom voice off] ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-how-long-is-one-a-newbie/72508/8 "2001-07-14T21:27:13Z")
It depends on several things, actually: How good you are at posting topics in the proper forums. How easily you take being questioned on your opinions. How willing you are to do some research when someone says “Put up or shut up.” Just show us that you care about what you post, basically. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-how-long-is-one-a-newbie/72508/9 "2001-07-14T21:29:29Z")
Don’t listen to them. They’re all lying to you. You’re a newbie until I say otherwise. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-how-long-is-one-a-newbie/72508/10 "2001-07-14T21:34:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scotticher \* > You are a newbie until you establish an identity all your own. Could be in ten posts, could be in a thousand. Yes. Yes yes yes. IMHO:) There isn’t a set time period after which you’re no longer a newbie (just think about it . . . 6 months? why not 5 months, 3 weeks and four days?). Some people establish themselves in a long thread in GQ or the pit or something, some wait for a few months, and some people from last year (and hell, from 1999) who are still newbies in the sense that they haven’t established identities. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-how-long-is-one-a-newbie/72508/11 "2001-07-14T21:37:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by PookahMacPhellimey \* > \*\*… how long? > \*\* \ About _this_ long… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-how-long-is-one-a-newbie/72508/12 "2001-07-14T21:53:16Z")
Well, I don’t know how long it will take you, but I still consider myself to be a Newbie. Although I have been here since, October? I don’t know, whatever month it says, i have a relatively low post count. Plus, not a lot of posters recognize me, I think. Maybe they do, I don’t know. But, this is about you, so get out there and un-Newbie-ize yourself, now! (p.s.: somewhere’s, someone made a formula for calculating Newbie status, so do a little searching. I would, but I’m just too damn lazy. (sorry)) ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2001, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-how-long-is-one-a-newbie/72508/13 "2001-07-15T01:24:19Z")
One good clue: When a comment of yours appears in some else’s sig. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2001, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-how-long-is-one-a-newbie/72508/14 "2001-07-15T01:30:14Z")
_Someone_ has to be serious here! Seein’ as I asked a similar question once, a lo-o-o-ong time ago … **Pookah** (if I may call you that for brevity), there’s a SECRET FORMULA in a past thread, oh, around January 2001 or so. See if you can find it. If ya can’t – when you’ve been here 3 months, and have around 300 posts, you ain’t no newbie no more. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2001, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-how-long-is-one-a-newbie/72508/15 "2001-07-15T01:31:17Z")
Oh, BTW, Welcome to the SDMB! ---
**Author:** ![Billy\_Rubin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billy_rubin/32/3622_2.png) [@Billy\_Rubin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billy_Rubin)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2001, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-how-long-is-one-a-newbie/72508/16 "2001-07-15T01:42:48Z")
You’re a newbie until you stop giving a crap about being a newbie. Welcome aboard. b. ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2001, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-how-long-is-one-a-newbie/72508/17 "2001-07-15T02:51:08Z")
Just wanted to welcome another Goodfellow to the boards. Hi, namesake! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![saepiroth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@saepiroth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saepiroth)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2001, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-how-long-is-one-a-newbie/72508/18 "2001-07-15T03:16:53Z")
but **pesch** , someone has used one of my comments as a .sig, but i am technically still a newbie… obviously that is faulty logic… **icewolf** , is newbieness lost when you reach a density of 100 posts a month? but what of those with good ideas who post less than 3 posts a day (due, possibly, to time constraints)? we need comprehensive rules here, dag-nabbit! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2001, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-how-long-is-one-a-newbie/72508/19 "2001-07-15T03:23:19Z")
I guess that still makes me a newbie since most people don’t know me from Adam. Although I do know what’s going on around here since I read these boards constantly, just don’t post much. Personally I like Billy Rubin’s formula since I never gave a crap about being a newbie. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2001, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-how-long-is-one-a-newbie/72508/20 "2001-07-15T03:40:47Z")
No, no, no, there’s no time limit. Three _months?_ Sheesh. :rolleyes: And there’s no post limit, either. Listen, Scotti nailed it in the second post, this thread is over. > [@](#): > > You are a newbie until you establish an identity all your own. Could be in ten posts, could be in a thousand. So go home already, people. 😃 FTR, under this most excellent criterion, [_tips hat in Scotti’s direction_] the fastest progress from “Newbie” to “Doper” I’ve _ever_ seen was Jarbaby’s meteoric rise. Whoo! Took her about 15 minutes, I think. And about 10 posts. Ice Wolf, sweetie, you stop being a newbie when you stop _feeling_ like a newbie. It’s all in your head, babe. As long as every time you post, you think, "People are probably going to read this and think, ‘Oh, there’s that newbie, Ice Wolf’, then you’re gonna _feel_ like a newbie. So stop thinking that. [sub]btw, ur not a newbie. do u still feel like a newbie? well ur not. [/sub] [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-how-long-is-one-a-newbie/72508.md?page=2)