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Snay...post who, exactly? Sorry, but with your comments about typing, you should help set an example.
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Since Jeff just likes to side-step his way around offering any sort of explanation on what exactly a "newbie" is, I'll try my hand at it.
A newbie is, basically, someone who is new to an online community. How long this person is considered a newbie depends on many factors, the most important of which is whether others members of that community are feeling elitist.
I don't think that anyone who has participated at Flare long enough to be a senior member can accurately be called a newbie. For god's sake, that's a minimum of 250 posts right there. That already a lot of interaction and learning the ropes, especially with a community this size.
Some people don't judge the status of "newbie" on post numbers; some base it on length of time participating. I think that if one participates regularly enough in this forum for about a month, that person cannot be rightly called a "newbie." This is all based on my experiences with about five different message boards (although I just lurk on the other four).
Somewhat related to this "acting like a newbie." This includes things like random postings in the middle of a serious discussion, exaggerating or out and out lying about one's background, using AOL kiddie/1337 typings, harrassing other posters, turning a blind eye towards forum protocols, or acting with little or no maturity.
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The BWC
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Like in the middle of the old DS9 Tech Manual Kitbash Ships topic posting:
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Well, that's more an example of a spammer. That's usually got a person who registers for the sole purpose of plugging his or her website. They have no interest in actually participating in the discussions. Kinda a similar is a troll. That's a person who registers for the sole purpose of causing problems and acting like a jerk (usually using newbie-ish tactics like the AOL kiddie typing you cited).
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People who throw the word "newbie" around also have a tendancy to be either arrogant, or a bit insecure in their own "mature" status.
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BWC, http://www.virtualave.com/kitty13/index.html!1! fockin rules, man! everyone should put that in their bookmarks, because that's my sister! thanks for showing letting everyone know, n00b.
to kinda answer the question, i don't think that post counts mean anything. i have thousands of posts at some forums, but most of the posts are questions, so i am still a newbie when it comes to the subject those forums are about. you would never know that if you just saw my postcounts, though. its just mentality that determines a n00b. the only thing i can say is that, generally, you know a newbie when you see one.
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