OK mega (and everyone else) - at what point is a poster not a newbie anymore ?? Is there a post number, or length of time or something ? Am I still newbie by asking this ?
Dammit, somebody explain . . . .
They STILL haven’t taught me the secret handshake. And I’ve been here since… umm… well I dont know how long i been here… but I stil want to learn the secret handshake dammit!!!
We’ll let you know.
Seriously, there are some posters who are (the Trekkers will love this) assimilated quicker than others. So there are some posters with a 115 post count which are no longer newbies.
The quality of posts, and in some cases the tenacity of the poster, is a better indicator of when you’ve crossed from newbie to regular.
I like your posts, NothingMan, so get on your knees…
::touching each of your shoulders with tip of the sword from the Guy Stuff thread::
Arise Reg NothingMan!
You’re now a regular.
Well…all i know is that, at this point, I am definitely still a newbie.
But to answer the two of you (NothingMan and Talkinsquirrel), to me (as a newbie), i’d say that you two are no longer newbies as I can already recognise your names in posts 
Kick ass.
Thanks ChiefScott, I am honored.
Are we a regular yet? Or are we still a designated newbie? winces at the word cuz where they learned it originally it doesn’t exactly have good connotations but they can live with it here for now
blinks Um nevermind the we stuff… We’re… I’m talking about it with my therapist. wanders of singing “I Am Slowly Going Crazy”
(points to self)
This is a newbie.
Any questions?
Am I a newbie?..
Coldfire mentioned me in his shortest list book so maybe I’m not.
It’s relative. I’ve been here for awhile, and sometimes I still feel like a newbie.
There are posters who have been here since the board was on AOL. That was so long ago that computers hadn’t even been invinted yet: they wrote on pieces of paper, made airplanes, and threw them at each other. Except for the flames: those were tied to a rock and launched from steam-driven catapults.
I’d say quality of posts, not quantity makes you a regular of the SDMB. I’d still consider myself a newbie by those standards, lately I’ve become more of a lurker than a poster(especially in GQ and GD)as I am a bit too preoccupied to delve into threads the way I would like to.
I think that when a name becomes familiar to me, I stop considering them new. New meaning either, to the board or to me.
CRAP!!! And I’ve been going for quantity this whole time… Why didn’t anyone tell me???
NothingMan, you need to wash those shoulders ASAP. That was no sword, it was the moose schlong from the Guy Stuff Thread.
ChiefScott, we warned to about pull that trick on the new guys ! Now face your punishment.
:eek: 
:mad: :rolleyes: :o
Go ChiefScot, and schlong no more.
:eek: That should have been we warned you about pulling that trick on the new guys. :eek:
As far as I’m concerned, I don’t care if someone has 1 post or 3,000 - if they have something interesting, funny, intelligent, controversial, etc. to say, what difference should it make when they decided to click the ‘register’ button?
I so rarely look at how many posts someone has that I was a bit shocked just now when I noticed how many Sealemon has. Frankly, NothingMan, I thought you’d been around as long as he has. Goes to show, eh?
If I had one wish for this board it would be that people would knock off all this ‘newbie’ crap. Or to go one further, to completely eliminate any reference to how many posts someone has or when they registerd. This passing judgement on people based on their post count as opposed to the content of their postings is starting to piss me off.
Go girl!