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R · Joined: 07 May 2003 Posts: 277 Location: United Kingdom

See 'quit picking on the backpackers' thread for details...

Shonai Ben · Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Posts: 617

I voted for a newbie forum.Hope this helps. Cool

R · Joined: 07 May 2003 Posts: 277 Location: United Kingdom

Cheers Ben. Well, so far it'a a landslide victory! Very Happy

Shonai Ben · Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Posts: 617

Can I vote again?The same vote of course.

guest of Japan · Joined: 28 Feb 2003 Posts: 1601 Location: Japan

A Newbie Forum would be much better than death.

johnslat · Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 2:10 pm Post subject: Death - be not proud

Strange - so far no one seems to prefer death. Well, there's just no accounting for taste, is there?
Regards,
John
P.S. R - have you ever considered a career in polling? You have a certain facility for framing questions is a pro-active and non-biased way.

Wolf · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 1245 Location: Middle Earth

A Newbie forum sounds like a great idea, but who would be giving advice to whom? Confused

And if Dave did make one, wouldn't we need some wierd initiation rituals to let them in to the grizzled old gieser forum? Cool

R · Joined: 07 May 2003 Posts: 277 Location: United Kingdom

I'm not thinking of a completely separate forum requiring a seperate logon, etc., just a sub-forum next to the General Discussion one. People would obviously be free to go to and from that on to the other threads, but at least they would know that the Newbie section would be a safe haven for beginner questions. The friendlier of the regular posters could lurk in there and dispense advice as and when they felt like it. Likewise, newbie's could still post country specific questions, eg 'where can I get a donner kebab in Tokyo?' in the country threads, while posting 'what's a TEFL? Is it better than a CELTA or a NATO?' in the Newbie thread.

to put it another way, (after all that), a General Discussion forum for newbies. Smile

R · Joined: 07 May 2003 Posts: 277 Location: United Kingdom

That said, I do feel a certain tingle at the thought of wierd initiation rituals!

John - living in the United "voter apathy" Kingdom, I felt I should, er, help the voters along a bit. Cool

Shonai Ben · Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Posts: 617

I like your idea but will the powers that be go for it?
Hmmn.I think we need a comment from god, aka Dave. Embarassed

R · Joined: 07 May 2003 Posts: 277 Location: United Kingdom

Once again you speak the truth, Ben. How do we summon Dave? does it require naked dancing round a bonfire? The drinking of goat's blood? Ritual ingestion of Space Dust? Or just shouting "hey, Dave!" a lot?

Wolf · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 1245 Location: Middle Earth

Dave is the alpha and the omega, the first and the last.

If we wierdly initiate enoguh newbies, that ought to do the trick.

Seriously, lots of the forums do seem to contain a "Newbie with partail high school seeks really good job in Middle East" type posts (okay, not that bad). That might rise some bile. In a newbie forum, we would at least know to EXPECT that. And therefore the responses might not summon Dave's archangles (known the world over as Mon Nee Tors.)

Now to summon Dave. Let's see, paddle, goat, shaving cream....

Irish · Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 371

As my cold gets worse, death sounds like a very attractive option...but, in the interest of the greater good, I'll vote for instituting a separate newbie forum as well. Maybe that will cut down on the abuse and keep the most common questions in a place where newbies can easily find them rather than hunting through the ever-growing General Discussion forum.

Summoning Dave requires, I think, a sacrificial virgin...where the heck are we going to find one of those? Or we could just pm Sperling and the mods (sounds like a new grunge band).

R · Joined: 07 May 2003 Posts: 277 Location: United Kingdom

Sperling and the Mods... I'd buy their records! Possibly...

Sorry to hear about your cold. They're nasty things, very under-rated. Can you get Lemsip in Hawaii? When I have a cold, Lemsip's the only friend I care about.

I should be writing ad copy...

I'll PM Dave and supplicate.

Rob.

Irish · Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 371

Your sympathies are much appreciated, Rob. Yes, colds are underrated: I'm not well enough to get anything done that I'd planned for today yet I'm not sick enough to be really interesting to my roommates. They've offered me some, uh, interesting smelling concoctions that they picked up in Chinatown--very kind of them, but I'll stick with the Nyquil. Haven't heard of Lemsip or seen it here but your glowing testimonial has me sold on it already.

Thanks for PMing the powers that be. It's a good idea and I'm sure they'll go for it, but I suspect that some harsh old-timers will miss pummeling the poor newbies--not that they'd admit it.