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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: rxsunshine on March 27, 2013, 11:35 pm

Title: does anyone else feel like we are in elementary school with newbie posts?
Post by: rxsunshine on March 27, 2013, 11:35 pm
i feel like us newbies are elementary with our post. like we are trying to make it to the bigtimers lol.
Title: Re: does anyone else feel like we are in elementary school with newbie posts?
Post by: Akathisia on March 27, 2013, 11:43 pm
its just for security purposes...
Alot of RC forums are the same way...
Title: Re: does anyone else feel like we are in elementary school with newbie posts?
Post by: rxsunshine on March 27, 2013, 11:52 pm
oh i kmow and agree with the logic, just feels like im not part of the "in crowd" yet. lol. like we are children talking. maybe one day we will grow up and be able to post in the main forum  ;D

slowly but surely getting to 50 posts.

btw, how do you ad a signature to a profile?
Title: Re: does anyone else feel like we are in elementary school with newbie posts?
Post by: Akathisia on March 27, 2013, 11:58 pm
haha i feel ya...
you jus go to profile>account settings and its in there somewhere
Title: Re: does anyone else feel like we are in elementary school with newbie posts?
Post by: rxsunshine on March 28, 2013, 12:12 am
i tried to find it in there but couldnt. thanks though
Title: Re: does anyone else feel like we are in elementary school with newbie posts?
Post by: psychedelicstoner on March 28, 2013, 12:18 am
yea its takin timee
Title: Re: does anyone else feel like we are in elementary school with newbie posts?
Post by: LexLuthor on March 28, 2013, 12:34 am
Quite annoying.
Title: Re: does anyone else feel like we are in elementary school with newbie posts?
Post by: A55RASH on March 28, 2013, 01:50 am
No, the main purpose of the 50 post being implemented is due to some posting spam.
Title: Re: does anyone else feel like we are in elementary school with newbie posts?
Post by: Xennek on March 28, 2013, 01:54 am
No. I think we are in a spawning pool.
Title: Re: does anyone else feel like we are in elementary school with newbie posts?
Post by: EisGOOD4u on March 28, 2013, 02:46 am
it took me forever to even realize that you had to post here as a newbie... i thought there was something wrong with the website lol


must be the drugs.
Title: Re: does anyone else feel like we are in elementary school with newbie posts?
Post by: rxsunshine on March 28, 2013, 09:33 pm
lol yeah me too. i was like, whats the trick?
Title: Re: does anyone else feel like we are in elementary school with newbie posts?
Post by: eskimoplea7 on March 28, 2013, 09:54 pm
it is prettying annoying seeing all you people bitch about it ALL day
Title: Re: does anyone else feel like we are in elementary school with newbie posts?
Post by: SemaSyn4 on March 28, 2013, 09:55 pm
don't understand why they need the 50 limit. they have capchas and mods to prevent spam right? seems like a pointless waste of time.
Title: Re: does anyone else feel like we are in elementary school with newbie posts?
Post by: rxsunshine on March 28, 2013, 10:02 pm
i guess it kinda makes sense to me.
to keep ppl from just making an account and spamming the threads. if you are willing to do 50 newbie posts before you post in the main forum, you are prob not gonna waste thread space as much. you know, its our training wheels man. lol
Title: Re: does anyone else feel like we are in elementary school with newbie posts?
Post by: eskimoplea7 on March 28, 2013, 10:09 pm
its to help new people learn the website and search for the answer to their questions before
filling up the regular forums with questions easily answered by using the search bar
Title: Re: does anyone else feel like we are in elementary school with newbie posts?
Post by: Kinetic on March 30, 2013, 08:45 pm
It's to weed out spammers/bots/lazy people.

Good policy imo.
Title: Re: does anyone else feel like we are in elementary school with newbie posts?
Post by: cantharidin on March 30, 2013, 09:43 pm

btw, how do you ad a signature to a profile?

In Profile > Forum Profile ? Modify Profile  - there's a box for signature as well as a choice for adding an avatar.
Title: Re: does anyone else feel like we are in elementary school with newbie posts?
Post by: spokeknife on March 30, 2013, 09:52 pm
I think the mods should delete any of those "spam to get to 50" threads that people post in, and make them actually contribute to this newbie forum for a bit, instead of just posting junk.

If they're posting junk in this forum, I think it's a safe bet that they'll be posting junk in the other forums too, once they've gotten past the barrier.
Title: Re: does anyone else feel like we are in elementary school with newbie posts?
Post by: cantharidin on March 31, 2013, 03:14 am
I think the mods should delete any of those "spam to get to 50" threads that people post in, and make them actually contribute to this newbie forum for a bit, instead of just posting junk.

If they're posting junk in this forum, I think it's a safe bet that they'll be posting junk in the other forums too, once they've gotten past the barrier.

I could agree with that - if you don't have anything to say in the newbie forum (which actually has a surprising amount of interesting content) then why would you have anything to say in the regular forums. OTOH, I don't see that there's a ton of harm in the 'spam to 50' concept - at least those threads are well marked, and it still takes at least some effort to get to 50.
Title: Re: does anyone else feel like we are in elementary school with newbie posts?
Post by: AllDayLong on March 31, 2013, 03:35 am
I think the mods should delete any of those "spam to get to 50" threads that people post in, and make them actually contribute to this newbie forum for a bit, instead of just posting junk.

If they're posting junk in this forum, I think it's a safe bet that they'll be posting junk in the other forums too, once they've gotten past the barrier.

I could agree with that - if you don't have anything to say in the newbie forum (which actually has a surprising amount of interesting content) then why would you have anything to say in the regular forums. OTOH, I don't see that there's a ton of harm in the 'spam to 50' concept - at least those threads are well marked, and it still takes at least some effort to get to 50.

Alright... I spammed my way to 50. When I showed up I really didn't see any interesting content in the newbie section, and I'm not a spammer so I wanted in. With all the threads I figured that was just how you do it. It took an entire night though. I didn't know about the option at the time to not warn someone else has posted. But if someone wants to post in another thread I don't think it's so bad, at least the spam threads are clearly labeled. To get 50 real posts in here with how slow it is would take a bit too long I think. Eh idk
Title: Re: does anyone else feel like we are in elementary school with newbie posts?
Post by: chronicjohnson on March 31, 2013, 03:56 am
Doesn't bother me too much. I just lurk and hope to see unanswered questions posted.