# New here! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 4, 2014, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-here/694804 "2014-08-04T18:08:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jrock645](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@jrock645](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jrock645)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-here/694804/1 "2014-08-04T18:08:23Z")
new here and looking forward to getting to talk with everybody. I just started a blog that I wanted to share- [URL deleted — Ellen] Just a random collection of thoughts that are of the moment. Hope everybody is having a great monday! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-here/694804/2 "2014-08-04T18:56:17Z")
Reported. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-here/694804/3 "2014-08-04T19:29:55Z")
my monkey is doing fine. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-here/694804/4 "2014-08-04T20:46:17Z")
Welcome, jrock645! We’d love to have you as a regular poster, but we frown upon people who arrive with only a link and a plea. How about sharing your ideas here? That’s what the message board format does best. I did delete your link; it’s not personal, it’s our policy because it has a whiff of spam. As I said, you’re welcome to participate here! Ellen Cherry MPSIMS Moderator ---
**Author:** ![jrock645](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@jrock645](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jrock645)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-here/694804/5 "2014-08-04T20:53:52Z")
thanks and understood. Its good to be here! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-here/694804/6 "2014-08-04T21:27:39Z")
Welcome, welcome! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-here/694804/7 "2014-08-04T23:12:19Z")
> [@jrock645](#): > > thanks and understood. Its good to be here! Welcome. Sorry about reporting your post; nothing personal, but we get some real oddballs who come in to post a link, then disappear over the horizon. Often the link is to a porn site, or a white supremacy site, or ends up infecting your computer. Most people will not click on a link from a “newbie”, and usually the first person who enters the thread (in this case me) will report the post to let others know a Mod is looking at it to verify the poster isn’t a sock puppet or a spammer. Cheers! ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-here/694804/8 "2014-08-04T23:47:27Z")
> [@jrock645](#): > > thanks and understood. Its good to be here! Yay! Happy dance! Bouncy bouncy, etc? So how long do you think you will actually, for real, last here? Because most bouncy “New here!” newbies are history within a day or two. Crickets? Hello? ---
**Author:** ![callander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@callander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/callander)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-here/694804/9 "2014-08-05T00:05:54Z")
Welcome I think that you will find intelligent and well informed people here as well as total douche bags, enjoy. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-here/694804/10 "2014-08-05T00:07:37Z")
Yeah, as the text on the bottom of the page says, we do attract a few total dipsticks. Some people say I am one of them. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-here/694804/11 "2014-08-05T02:10:31Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Yeah, as the text on the bottom of the page says, we do attract a few total dipsticks. Some people say I am one of them. 🙂 I never noticed that line before. I guess that makes me one, too. Welcome aboard, **jrock645**. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-here/694804/12 "2014-08-05T20:30:40Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Yeah, as the text on the bottom of the page says, we do attract a few total dipsticks. Some people say I am one of them. 🙂 I’ve never said it. Out loud. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-here/694804/13 "2014-08-05T20:36:05Z")
**jrock645** sounds like one of the drive-time morning zoo personalities. Sorta. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-here/694804/14 "2014-08-05T21:45:01Z")
14th caller… ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-here/694804/15 "2014-08-05T23:59:52Z")
> [@chiroptera](#): > > Yay! Happy dance! Bouncy bouncy, etc? > So how long do you think you will actually, for real, last here? Because most bouncy “New here!” newbies are history within a day or two. > > Crickets? Hello? Aaannnd…gone. Don’t let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya! 😃 (I’m happy to be proven wrong, of course…)