How long are you considered a newbie?

-Lord-Vader-: "Strid, thats the most profound thing you've ever said."

Ah, Vader...its so good to see you...

*cough* Not!

 

i don't know what people would consider me.to some i'm probably still a newbie.to others i might be an oldbie.it all depends on a certen point of view.

 

Even though most of you consider me a newb i consider myself a semi-newb. because i have been around the boards for a while.

 

i think the whole newbie/oldbie thing has more to do with # of posts than actual time since you registered.

1-500 posts - newbie
500-2,000 posts- regular user
2,000-5,000 posts- midbie
5,000-50,000 posts- oldbie
50,000+ posts- bib

 

I highly disagree.

 

Yeah, I disagree too. I'm a newb - look at my rego date - and I've got over 1, 600 posts.

 

just look at those people who registered in july 98' and only posted 10 or 20 times before getting bored, and moving on. do you consider them oldbies?

now, look at the people who registered in jan 04' and became so obsessed with the JC that they now have thousands of posts. how can they be considered newbies?

newbie/oldbie status has more to do with maturity and involvement than time IMO.

 

Hmm, good arguement fosh . However, do you decide the same for an eldery person? I think that date is a better way to determine age around here. Though, the Oldbies in the Adoptions program only have to wait till they have 500 posts and have been here for over 4 months, in order to get that title .

 

This was posted in Comms the other day:

Anyone who registered in the old UBB days is an oldbie. Anyone who registered less than a year ago is a newbie. Everyone else is a midbie.

Face it, gang. You're not going to be an olbie probably ever.

 

Face it, gang. You're not going to be an olbie probably ever.


Nah,someday after we're here for 5 years,we will be.Muhahahhaha!

 

Newbie = Up to four months
Midbie = Four months - Two years
Oldbie = Two years +

That's always how i've seen it. Hope that helps.

 

I see it as how many people know you. Or how familiar you are with the boards, and anything under four months is a newbie.

 

Dev_Binks: "I see it as how many people know you. Or how familiar you are with the boards, and anything under four months is a newbie."

So, if one knew the Head Admin, then that'd make them an automatic Oldbie? Whoa, now that I like!

 

Newbies....oldbies....
there is a terrible caste system to this forum and I must reject categorically the placing of labels on anyone.
Why must I be forced to carry the stigma of a newbie label? If I have an old soul, does that not rank me as an oldbie?
Oldbie? Who thought that up, anyway?
Sounds cheesy. I like cheese as much as the next person, but oldbie sounds as if a couple of 8 year olds were brainstorming after a rough morning of Frosted Flakes and freebasing brown sugar.
Why can't we choose our own labels?
Isn't there enough tyranny is this world?
From now on I plausibly deny the term "newbie" and demand to be referred to as "Jedi Jam-master Jar Jar".

 

I agree with Bladex2

 

Post count has NOTHING to do with it, I will always stand by the very correct quote ''Quality is more important than quantity''.

 

there is a terrible caste system to this forum and I must reject categorically the placing of labels on anyone

I would not call it a cast system. It's just a tag and no one is calling someone a newbie to insult them. Its just that they're new.

Also, like Skiara said you are a newbie as long as you feel like one. If you feel comfy on the boards and have been posting then its great.

Personally I use the newbie/oldbie tags with regard to adoptions here at WNU. Plus oldbie simply means more experience on the JC.


''Quality is more important than quantity''.

Well said dash.

 

This was posted in Comms the other day:

Anyone who registered in the old UBB days is an oldbie. Anyone who registered less than a year ago is a newbie. Everyone else is a midbie.

That was me

 

I agree with dash too. Also I am still feel newbie in some areas.

 

I too agree with Dash. Because sometimes people post just to get their post count up so they feel better about themselves i can be accused of doing the same thing myself.

 

Whoa! My thread is still up! I'm amazed!

 

newbies are the freshmen of the JC.

ther'ere new, there're confused, and its fun to haze them.

 

I don't consider people as newbies based on their registration date. I try to do it based on the way they messageboard. For example: people who post like this - "YO SUP GUYS IS THSI BORED 4 STAR WARZ", - deserve to be referred to as a n00b, even if they registered in 1998. I base it mainly on post quality. Unfortunately, they usually go hand in hand.. newbies have a tendency to make crappy "n00b" like posts, until they've been around for a while and start to adapt.

I hope that made sense.