# Newberoos ?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 24, 2000, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newberoos/20381 "2000-05-24T07:18:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NothingMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@NothingMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NothingMan)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2000, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newberoos/20381/1 "2000-05-24T07:18:11Z")
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 . . . . ---
**Author:** ![Talkinsquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f6c823/32.png) [@Talkinsquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talkinsquirrel)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2000, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newberoos/20381/2 "2000-05-24T07:34:46Z")
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!!! ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2000, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newberoos/20381/3 "2000-05-24T07:43:34Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![\_oo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/e9a140/32.png) [@\_oo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_oo)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2000, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newberoos/20381/4 "2000-05-24T07:45:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > at what point is a poster **not** a newbie anymore ?? > \*\* 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 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![NothingMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@NothingMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NothingMan)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newberoos/20381/5 "2000-05-26T04:21:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > 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. > \*\* **Kick ass.** Thanks ChiefScott, I am honored. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newberoos/20381/6 "2000-05-26T04:34:52Z")
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”_ ---
**Author:** ![MetallicAsh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@MetallicAsh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MetallicAsh)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newberoos/20381/7 "2000-05-26T14:06:16Z")
(_points to self_) _This is a newbie._ Any questions? ---
**Author:** ![concrete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbce88/32.png) [@concrete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/concrete)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newberoos/20381/8 "2000-05-26T14:20:56Z")
Am I a newbie?.. Coldfire mentioned me in his shortest list book so maybe I’m not. ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newberoos/20381/9 "2000-05-26T14:28:46Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newberoos/20381/10 "2000-05-26T15:05:42Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![mega\_the\_roo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mega\_the\_roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mega_the_roo)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newberoos/20381/11 "2000-05-26T20:53:26Z")
I think that when a name becomes familiar to me, I stop considering them new. New meaning either, to the board or to me. ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newberoos/20381/12 "2000-05-26T21:01:46Z")
> [@](#): > > I’d say quality of posts, not quantity makes you a regular of the SDMB. **CRAP!!!** And I’ve been going for _quantity_ this whole time… Why didn’t anyone _tell_ me??? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ayesha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c0e974/32.png) [@Ayesha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ayesha)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2000, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newberoos/20381/13 "2000-05-27T02:05:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > ::touching each of your shoulders with tip of the sword from the Guy Stuff thread:: > > Arise Reg **NothingMan**! > > You’re now a regular. > \*\* 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. ---
**Author:** ![Ayesha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c0e974/32.png) [@Ayesha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ayesha)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2000, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newberoos/20381/14 "2000-05-27T02:08:22Z")
:eek: That should have been we warned you about pulling that trick on the new guys. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2000, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newberoos/20381/15 "2000-05-27T03:35:02Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2000, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newberoos/20381/16 "2000-05-27T16:45:22Z")
Go girl!