n00b adoption idea

[Czar]

Wha? We're still working on our first Team Comp game. You just don't show up. And wheres the new bar background for Pester Quest? 

Errr....

* Czar runs

Really. The Pester Quest background. I should really do it. It just escaped my to do list (as a lot of things did).

And i believe YOU are the one who 'just don't show up' (see how i'm using reverse psychology to divert you from my master plan?).

* Czar runs again

[ManicMatt]

If I'd have had a mentor helping me out when I was stuck, I'd have learnt things a lot faster, that's for sure!

The demo was unavailable at the time, I had to learn by -shock!- reading the manual!

Most of the times i was really stuck i just searched the forums for answers.

8/10 times I found the answer.

..and it felt good when I figured out something for myself when I was stuck!

"Hoorah! The NPC is animating correctly! I'm a genius!"

I'd say to myself.

[2ma2]

You kids have it easy.. when I was a n00b, I had to *GASP* read the manual. And when I got stuck on something, I had to post at the technical forum and *SHOCK* wait perhaps two days for a possible answer.

And frickin' roomedit was *HORROR* in DOS!

Yea, I know you we're kidding Matt

We're all n00bs. We have all been one and we should remember the feeling of it. The thing is, this is a community that went from rather small to whooping big in a matter of half a year, and then it just kept on growing. We've seen it all in n00b behaviour, and gotten enraged by it, putting up posting advicory, forum rules and tutoring examples.

But n00bs will always break these rules, and enrage the bitter gramps and moderator fascists of doom, because this it what happens. It will, it has and it does right NOW. But a community is not those who ruled, it is those who dare to rule, and todays n00bs are the rulers of tommorrow. Who are we to adopt the newcomers and tutor in the ways of the YaBB? Who would we be to take on protogés so that our lush garden of forum goodness may stay the way it should, forever and ever and ever.

We're not, should not, and I don't even think care about it. You n00b? You break rule? We tell you; You break rule! You cry! You not break rule again!

You 10'000 n00bs? You break rule? You rule! You not break rule! You decide rule!

My point is 2 points, one which has not been pointed out to well in the ramblings above;

Firstly off, someone who does not adapt to the general community should not be tutored in doing so by anyone. You can not teach a newcomer YOUR view of the forum. Being new means that you will perhaps step on toes, but God (CJ) forgives all. So does the community IF you adapt. If you do not, you'll be lynched, staked and burned publically for all of us to see and cheer.

Secondly, the community is all of its communers, including the n00b. And what the community develops into is a product of its inhabitants, thus the aformentioned communtiy in point 1 above is not the 'oldies', 'gamereleasers' nor 'mitteneers' but each and everyone of you. So if the community develops, and anyone within the community, whether be n00b or 2 year regular starts breaking rules and does not adapt, they'll be lynched, staked and burned for all of us to see and cheer.

It's the Swedish way baby. Adapt or suffer the consequences. Resistance is futile!