My experience here lends me to believe that after you’ve engaged in either a penetrating question or answer, everyone’s going to start talking about you and you can’t claim newbieinity anymore.
I have no idea if I’m a newbie or not. I chat on AOL with a few dopers (not to mention names, don’t want to drag anybody down like that). I’ve never noticed any other threads about me that I wasn’t involved in. Although, I’ve visited about every day since I’ve registered, so. . .
I think you’re not a newbie any more when you consider it a mortal sin to type hampster.
Hey! Bored.com got me here too.
+1
Throw a DopeFest. And if someone throws it back at you, you belong.
Wowie, I was spoken about off the board. You guys must have been talking about long ass stupid names or something. Hey! That’s me! It didn’t hurt until now. 
LOL Just kidding. So, I don’t exactly feel like a newbie but I think I will feel less like one when I find a thread that mentions me that I haven’t participated in as of yet.
Hello all,
We were supposed to get a welcome thread?? Huh? Er? Doh? Dag…I am definitely without question a newbie, but workin’ on it!
Scotticher, to answer the “from whence I came question” I would have to chalk it up to taking a new job a couple weeks ago that had a winning combination- ethernet and TIME, I’ve got A LOT- anyhoo, a browse through the CityPaper online brought me back to a long forgotten gem of brilliance in the otherwise bland landscape of daily-columning. I was brought into the Cecil Adams fold, discovered SDMB, and am hooked. Help. 
-SDMB whippersnapper
Hello all,
We were supposed to get a welcome thread?? Huh? Er? Doh? Dag…I am definitely without question a newbie, but workin’ on it!
Scotticher, to answer the “from whence I came question” I would have to chalk it up to taking a new job a couple weeks ago that had a winning combination- ethernet and TIME, I’ve got A LOT- anyhoo, a browse through the CityPaper online brought me back to a long forgotten gem of brilliance in the otherwise bland landscape of daily-columning. I was brought into the Cecil Adams fold, discovered SDMB, and am hooked. Help.
-SDMB whippersnapper
I’ll help turn this into the newbie welcome thread. I think I count (at time of posting this will be #4, I think). I found this board through a couple of other friends who are regulars here (I’ll withhold their names so as not to soil their reputations).
Argh, does anyone know the mystery of double posting?? That’s gotta be a clue to distinguish those who “have it” from those who “don’t.”
Hey Highway, I think we should make a new club…it can be for those of us with fewer than 50 posts, and we can have, ya know, a 12 step program. Granted, if I keep posting at this rate, I’ll write myself out of my own club, but it’ a thought…
Lol
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panache, I think that might be a good idea, if only to try to boost our post count. 
Naw, we’ll do it the old fashioned way, I guess.
Thanks Flowerchild! I have never visited bored.com, but it sounds like I should take a wander through it.
And welcome panache and Highway! I hope you all enjoy your stay.
As I recall to not be a newbie you need
- At minimum 4 months as a registers user.
- You must have been pitted at least once.
- Post count of 400+
- Talked about in a thread that you haven’t participated in.
- To have come up with a short list of criteria for no longer being a newbie.
But what if your really really nice and no one wants to pit you? Am I going to be a newbie forever ?
That’s quite a limiting set of criteria. A very small proportion of regular posters have been “Pitted.”
Flowerchild, if it makes you feel any better, you’ve been Pitted already – if not specifically by name – for your misuse of ‘your.’
Well, let’s see. I’ve been here a couple years, 1300-and-some posts. I expect to be recognized any day now.
Hey, Robot Arm, is that you over there?
I thought I recognized you! Howyadoin’!
Cheri, you may not know this, but Fierra came to the SDMB via bored.com too.
Pit yourself. I did it at least once. It’s cathartic.