# So, something I've been wondering about now for a while... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 17, 2001, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-something-ive-been-wondering-about-now-for-a-while/54832 "2001-02-17T01:44:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-something-ive-been-wondering-about-now-for-a-while/54832/1 "2001-02-17T01:44:33Z")
I still refer to myself as a newbie… I don’t even have 500 posts yet, I mean c’mon, I’ve got a ways to go till I’m even with Handy… At what point does someone stop being a newbie? I’m just curious… Is there a checklist? Is there some sort of Elite Clique [sub](first rule, don’t talk about elite clique)[/sub] meeting to determine it, what? FTR, I in no way think of myself as a veteran… like I said, I still consider myself a newbie… but it is something I am curious about… Advice? ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-something-ive-been-wondering-about-now-for-a-while/54832/2 "2001-02-17T01:48:58Z")
You stop being a newbie pretty much when you feel that you are a regular yourself and contribute thoughtful things to posts. I think of you as a semi-regular, and well, I don’t know if I post meaningfully enough to actually be a “normal” regular. I mean, it seems I am posting crap lately due to the amount of threads I’ve sunken, but oh well. Just call me The Iceberg. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-something-ive-been-wondering-about-now-for-a-while/54832/3 "2001-02-17T01:53:05Z")
Newbies become regs on May 33, but only on leap years. ---
**Author:** ![pricciar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@pricciar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pricciar)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-something-ive-been-wondering-about-now-for-a-while/54832/4 "2001-02-17T01:55:22Z")
I think everyone is a newbie until they have an entire forum named after them. That means only Cecil and some guy named Staff are non-newbies. Which is funny, because some guy named Staff taught a bunch of my college courses, and a large majority of the labs. pat ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-something-ive-been-wondering-about-now-for-a-while/54832/5 "2001-02-17T02:02:26Z")
Note to self: find Euty, kill euty. 😃 Hmmmmm semi regular… if I could get my PC working and online at home, I would try to do that whole #straightdope thing… I like a good backstabbing as much as the next doper! Hey, Pricciar, I think I used to have that teacher in High School… glad to hear he moved on to College level teaching. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-something-ive-been-wondering-about-now-for-a-while/54832/6 "2001-02-17T02:03:01Z")
You’re a newbie until _I_ say otherwise, okay?? I’m kidding. (No, I’m not.) Heehee, I really am. 😃 You are no longer a newbie when you no longer have to ask, “Am I a newbie?” ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-something-ive-been-wondering-about-now-for-a-while/54832/7 "2001-02-17T02:21:05Z")
Curses! hehehehehe So would getting a Mod to lock this one help? (just kidding mods!) ---
**Author:** ![Mandi\_s\_Mind\_101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Mandi\_s\_Mind\_101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mandi_s_Mind_101)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-something-ive-been-wondering-about-now-for-a-while/54832/8 "2001-02-17T03:57:37Z")
Well so far this thread has brought you up to 502 posts. From a fellow “newbie” you have to go through this whole ritual thing (then dont tell you that up front, I had to hear it from the inside) to make you even a semi regular. It can get pretty ugly, I mean with the flaming dog poop, rubber chicken, bottle rockets, etc.and only on the full moon on the second thursday of the month n all. I havent gotten up the fortitiude (although not testicular) to go through the ritual yet. So I dont mind being a newbie for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-something-ive-been-wondering-about-now-for-a-while/54832/9 "2001-02-17T05:12:15Z")
pat, I think you have the spelling wrong, thatguy you had in college was Staph.