# Wow, has membership picked up lately? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 24, 2004, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-has-membership-picked-up-lately/276503 "2004-11-24T18:23:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Khampelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-has-membership-picked-up-lately/276503/21 "2004-11-25T23:40:42Z")
> [@iampunha](#): > > I was going to ask if you wouldn’t prefer Nubian, but upon looking the word up I find I’ve confused it with nubile. Well, if you threw all the new posters inot one heap, you’d have a noob-pile. But don’t let me throw you any curves… ---
**Author:** ![uncleangus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/779978/32.png) [@uncleangus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uncleangus)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-has-membership-picked-up-lately/276503/22 "2004-11-25T23:51:15Z")
This is my first post. Boring, eh? I’ll try harder next time, but the bar is so frickin’ high around here. ---
**Author:** ![uncleangus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/779978/32.png) [@uncleangus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uncleangus)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-has-membership-picked-up-lately/276503/23 "2004-11-25T23:53:00Z")
Okay, okay! I’ll pay Cecil soon, I promise. ---
**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:** [November 26, 2004, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-has-membership-picked-up-lately/276503/24 "2004-11-26T02:42:46Z")
Welcome, **MrJones** and **uncleangus**! We _know_ you’ll enjoy your time here. 🙂 There are a few formalities to take care of, but you don’t need to worry about them. They’re trivial, really. Just go through the door on the left, pick up your kits, and go to… :: consults clipboard :: …room 101. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-has-membership-picked-up-lately/276503/25 "2004-11-26T03:15:58Z")
Just out of curiosity, **uncleangus** , should we be reading that at uncle angus or unclean gus? ---
**Author:** ![Keapon\_Laffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@Keapon\_Laffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keapon_Laffin)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-has-membership-picked-up-lately/276503/26 "2004-11-26T03:21:47Z")
> [@Chastain86](#): > > Wow, has membership picked up lately? Yep, must be the Christmas bonus. 😛 ---
**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:** [November 26, 2004, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-has-membership-picked-up-lately/276503/27 "2004-11-26T03:23:59Z")
[sub]Hi, **twickster** , did everything work out with the… you know? And was there enough jello?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-has-membership-picked-up-lately/276503/28 "2004-11-26T17:02:16Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Could be that one person starts an “I’m new” thread, others realize that if they do, too, they’ll also get a warm welcome, and so on. > > I’m sure there’s some kind of technical term for this. In fact, I’m reading a book on learning in animals right now, so I know there is – I just can’t think of what the term is. [Morphogenesis](http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=000CiF) is the technical term for what’s more commonly known as the “hundredth monkey effect”. I discovered the **SDMB** through the “General Questions” forum, so my first post was simply a response to a point that had been raised. By the time I started hanging around in **MPSIMS** , I was a bit too much of a veteran to start an “Attention: I Have Arrived!” thread. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-has-membership-picked-up-lately/276503.md?page=1)