SkyblueBabe: Being that there are many long time regulars on here, it must feel like being in a social club where newbies have to pass a 1000 thread test and their intelligence judged by a panel of sharp witted jaded gentlemen and gentlewomen, before they are accepted as one of the "gang"?
Is it kind of like "don't post or draw attention to yourself, unless you are spoken to, otherwise noses will be put out of joint" ?
How are you other newbies finding your experience on this site?
And for you "oldies" (kindly referred to as "regulars") do you find newbies to be a source of annoyance, amusement, vague interest or just tolerate them on a "as long as they don't comment on threads that aren't any of their business" ?
Please be gentle, I am still fairly (kinda) new to internet forum etiquette, and I cry easily (nah not really, I give back as good as I get, and have to bite my tongue most of the time crying is for sissies..... )
Anyhoo, before this turns into a bloody saga, I will leave it at that, but not before I shoot you this
I don't comment much and to be honest I do find some a bit cliquish, so just as well I treat this as a pastime. The site and the forums is for everyone and everyone's entitled to their opinion, 'new' or 'jaded'. Nobody should need to feel like their joining some club. Just be yourself, post when you feel like it and to hell with the begrudgers and the judgementals and those full of their own exaggerated self-importance and think they own the forums!
Most are nice and friendly though, to be fair!
So just remember you are as entitled to be here as anyone who's in here, regardless of how long they've been here! Enjoy and take with a great big pinch of salt! Add some lemon and tequila if you like!
SkyblueBabeOPSydney, New South Wales Australia125 posts
minnieme2: I don't comment much and to be honest I do find some a bit cliquish, so just as well I treat this as a pastime. The site and the forums is for everyone and everyone's entitled to their opinion, 'new' or 'jaded'. Nobody should need to feel like their joining some club. Just be yourself, post when you feel like it and to hell with the begrudgers and the judgementals and those full of their own exaggerated self-importance and think they own the forums!
Most are nice and friendly though, to be fair!
So just remember you are as entitled to be here as anyone who's in here, regardless of how long they've been here! Enjoy and take with a great big pinch of salt! Add some lemon and tequila if you like!
Having been here since 2003 l am still not part of any gang and do not mind one bit, as l posted earlier on another thread these forums are full of people that contradict themselves and those who slagged you off 2 years ago today are posting things that they were against. First they love religion then today they don't, they buddy up to posters of filth that make derogatory remarks regarding women's private parts, today they would shoot them.
This is clearly a forum of two faced people and if you do not know that now you never will, the amount of crass stupidity too is something that you will never surpass anywhere else but to say it started recently is wrong because l found it back in 2003.
At times the owners of this site should think very hard about closing the forums completely, just cast your eyes over the list of threads in the forum and ask yourself if the O.P's are really well in their minds.
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