For all the newbies!

[Mr. Anderson]

So with over 1000 new members in the past few days, I was wondering if you could post a line or two about what made you sign up and become a member. I'm very curious.

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[sneed]

I have been lurking here for some time, but a recent discussion about CPU speed got me pissed enough to comment. I won't go into it here, but I felt that my point of view had some merit, so I wanted to join in on the fray.

I don't know why I've kept posting... I think I just want an avitar. We'll see.

[Mr. Anderson]

I started a 'lurkers come out from the shadows' thread back a couple months as well. It is interesting that as soon as you start posting you find yourself getting more involved.

I think one of the reasons is that often enough people respond to your posts so you feel you need to reply, and before you know it you're at a 1000 posts and not looking back:cool:

But I was even more curious about the people who joined up over the last couple of days, it really does seem a little abnormal. And its still going on, we're at 7,185 members as of this post. Truly amazing.

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[King Cobra]

I'll go easy on the newbies for this one...they just barely deserve a break.

dukedog, if you respond to every newbie post just like you did with the avatar contest you'll have 5000 in no time! :D :D :p :rolleyes: :eek: :cool:

[sneed]

what a difference 4 months makes, eh King Cobra?

[Mr. Anderson]

I only responded when something needed to be said. I've never had a problem coming up with something to post, don't do 1 liners or one words, and I don't respond to every one of my own posts, please.

And for the record, I've never given newbies a hard time - unless they've been those rare individuals who just show up and start spouting off how apple sucks then dissapear to watch the fireworks. Its unfortunate that it happens every couple months or so, but what's even worse is that it's so easy to get everyone all going over a few well chosen taunts. But as a moderator I'm not really supposed to go in with my words swinging, I have more responsibility which takes away the fun sometimes.

But you should know that we've all had just 1 post before.....:D

[King Cobra]

sneed, it's been 4 and a half...but damn right I have improved.

dukedog, I don't think it matters if you always try to have decent posts or not, especially in this section. Take a look at you. You're well respected, well liked, say a lot, and you get to be a moderator. Plus, you have decent posts basically every single time.

Now, take a look at eye. He's well respected, well liked, comical, and a moderator. But he sometimes inputs one-liners.

So do you see where I am going? Some of the best people on the forums are not judged by just acting neutral, by responding with one-liners, or by having the most posts. All that may be fine and well, but it doesn't make sense to always try to have the best decent posts. I'm not saying you should change, but I am simply saying that you don't always need to make full blown posts that try and blow people away.

Besides, one in a while isn't going to kill you. :D :cool:

[job]

It took me little over one month to get my 600+ posts. I joined the MR just because I had a question about buying a tower (which was still when we thought that we would see the new towers at MWNY. :D)

Other than that, the MR forums seemed to have a great community, far better than the other forum I was in before (the Tactical-Ops forums.) That forum was spam a minute. No one cared what you wrote/posted; I think some people are approaching 10,000 posts. :eek: There was also a lot of low-brow, crude humor being passed around, not to mention that fact that a possible pediophile was using the board posing as a female. :eek: :eek:

Yeah, I'll take the MR quality over BS quantity any day. :D :D

[Durandal7]

It took me a little over a year to get my 500 posts ;) . I had been lurking at MR since MWNY '00 and after MWSF '01 I started posting. I think my first posts were in a thread dealing with Apple Mock-ups or something. I think I had made a mock-up of an Apple PDA (sorry eye, but back then it was still possible). Much to my surprise I have seen my PDA mock up reincarnated in various forms (someone had a keyboard with built-in Palm cradle mock-up)

[Mr. Anderson]

Originally posted by King Cobra
I'm not saying you should change, but I am simply saying that you don't always need to make full blown posts that try and blow people away.

Besides, one in a while isn't going to kill you. :D :cool:

ha, well, that's a good one:cool: I just prefer having something to say or add - its been brought up in other threads numerous times, so we don't need to start it up again - I just prefer avoiding the one liners, but I've done a few for comedic effect, given the good taunt - I just don't do that all the time. You should see some of the treads jello, rower and teabgs have gotten into in the private forum. I had to go and extract posts to keep a thread on topic, not to be used as a psuedo-flame war. Its fun sometimes to do that once in a while, and I do.

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[ShaolinMiddleFinger]

Just wondering....am I still considered a newbie?

[King Cobra]

Shaolin, if you have less than 30 posts, you are in the Flamer-Danger zone. If not, welcome to Macrumors! :D

hitman, how many times do you have to post you made 600+ posts in a month? Are you bored or what? :eek: :p

It took me about 80 days or so to hit 500.
Then, it took me a little over a month to hit 1000.
Only 20 days later I have 1400. I'm a threat for the top posters!

[Mr. Anderson]

Not until you post 4 consectutive days of over 100 posts/day or knock jello out of the all time posts/day of 200+

[King Cobra]

Hey, duke. Welcome to Macrumors! :D :eek: :D :p :rolleyes: :D

[job]

Originally posted by King Cobra
hitman, how many times do you have to post you made 600+ posts in a month? Are you bored or what? :eek: :p

Well since I registered way back in January, but have only started posting in June, my posts per day count is a bit off. I'll let you do the math. :D :D

I'm not bored, I just have a lot of time on my hands. :D

[job]

Originally posted by dukestreet
Not until you post 4 consectutive days of over 100 posts/day or knock jello out of the all time posts/day of 200+

Is that a one-line duke post I see? :eek: :D

[King Cobra]

That basically is. I have already welcomed dukestreet to Macrumors.com. I wonder if he'll like it here. :p :D :rolleyes: :p :D :cool:

[Cursor]

I guess it was MWNY that made me sign up. I was dissappointed in the show because (1) no new PowerMacs, (2) the paid transition to .mac, and (3) the price of Jaguar. There were a lot of positives about the show, but so many negatives. i just wanted to contribute. This is by far the best rumor/mac site out there.

[job]

I think we will be seeing him for quite a while still. :D :D

[King Cobra]

I'm with you, Cursor.

hitman, what do you mean "still"? It's his first time! :p :D

[Mr. Anderson]

Originally posted by King Cobra
I'm with you, Cursor.

hitman, what do you mean "still"? It's his first time! :p :D

just remember, i can *delete* threads and posts :D

[King Cobra]

You know, duke, it's not a nice thing to abuse your quickly-attributed moderator status like that. :D :eek:

Well, I'm glad we finally have another convert! :D :D Let's find out what other newbies have to say about their joining up around this time of year.

[Durandal7]

Originally posted by dukestreet
So with over 1000 new members in the past few days, I was wondering if you could post a line or two about what made you sign up and become a member. I'm very curious.

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This thread isn't coming out quite the way you wanted,is it? ;)

[Mr. Anderson]

Originally posted by asurace


This thread isn't coming out quite the way you wanted,is it? ;)

not at all, I was hoping for a few of the more recent members who joined over the past couple days to chime in, but hey, that's what happens. I'll end up having to cut most of this thread and move it to the postcount forum....where it will die quite death...

oh, and cobra - i'm not about to go piss off arn, that would be just stupid of me.....:D

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[King Cobra]

>cobra - i'm not about to go piss off arn, that would be just stupid of me.....:D
Why would he be p!ssed? I didn't say you had to do it all the time, and once in a while isn't going to kill you. Besides, the community section is supposed to be an area where people get along, whether it's a one-liner or a whole story. Nobody gives a ***** how long/short a post is, as long as it has a point. If not, at least try to put a sense of humor in it, as eye usually does. I'm working on it as well.

I'm well aware that this is a Mac forum web site, but since we had this it's now a community. You should be able to ************* about anything you want to, as long as it stays in the boundries of the topic of the forum/discussion.

C'mon, newbies. I just had a feast and I don't need to eat/strike for another week or so. :D :cool:

[Durandal7]

This has turned into more of a nostalgia thread for established members. My only fear is that with 1000 new members we'll get stuck with some of them spamming to get an avatar (we already had one)

[Mr. Anderson]

well, if you go back to that thread and see the latest reply - entered after the thread was closed - you'll see why that won't happen.

[Durandal7]

heh heh, there's nothing worse then incurring the wrath of a god. The only problem is that most newbs don't leave hardware rumors. They post their threads there no matter what the topic so I think they don't leave that forum.

[Mr. Anderson]

I think that if you stay around long enough, you realize that there is a lot more going on than you first thought. It might be why none of the newbies have posted here - they don't even know about it or how to search for all the newest threads/posts. That took me a while to figure out.

[magazineaddict]

I've been a lurker for something in the realm of years. I read a lot of comments but just can't bring myself to reply because with so many members it seems that most angles get covered and I hate "Me Too" posts.

So, to answer the question, I registered to get access to the locked down forums so I could satisfy my MacRumors addiction. Don't expect to see my name on too many posts, but you can be sure I am reading.:D

[King Cobra]

>That took me a while to figure out.
It took me about 3 months before learning how to use search. :D

When I first came on this site I thought it was only strictly for Macs and ABSOLUTELY nothing else. I didn't really realize that in part, until I first made 40 posts in one day. I keep getting more and more in touch with this nowadays, especially when fyter and I *************ted the alien thread for a few days. That was around when I hit 1000. Now I am aware of the forums, the Community section, and who to flame. Now, I can make windoze worshipers on this site make their face look like this:

[Durandal7]

Welcome to Macrumors magazineaddict.

I never had a problem with finding out about the non-rumors forums since I was here when they were formed :p

[woodenhill]

sorry but the risks are too high.:rolleyes:

February 2000 is the date I got my G4 and is the time I started being here regularly.

I looked a bit on a 6500, but in general started using macs in 1992.

The best times are at expo and software/product upgrades. The rest of the time you guys seem to just flame newbies and complain about other members.

It's all a bit "you're not a proper proper member" and I think I might be a little homophobic for that sort of behaviour.

Apart from that, as a collective, you provide a useful source of information and for that I am grateful.

Thanks:)

[Mr. Anderson]

Thanks for posting - and please, don't worry about the newbie status. Most of the time the people who get flamed deserve it. Most members are willing to listen to all sides of the story - look at some of the Macs and Politics threads.

But for me, when I first started, I realized that it was a great resource, something that I could use. I sort of got hooked and never really looked back, although it did take a while for me to become a regular poster.

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[King Cobra]

Exactly, duke. Hillmaster, here you can find lots of intelligent conversations (with a few ignorant :eek:holes) and get help with Macs and not be yelled at. Besides, it's not like spikey and joey j come here often. Make yourself feel at home, just don't make this only YOUR home! :cool:

[ShaolinMiddleFinger]

The thing that makes Macrumors really great is that it truly is a "community." It took me awhile to make posts. I would generally make one every month or so but you eventually get to know certain people by the way they respond. And that's a great thing, they actually respond to you. I know I've had questions before on certain items, some smart, some stupid...more stupid...but you do get a reply back. I've learned a lot from these forums than anywhere else on the web.

Thank yous go out to those who's answered all my stupid questions:p

[King Cobra]

Shaolin, you should have expected some of the answers you got to your questions. As the phrase goes:

"Ask stupid questions...get stupid answers." :D :D :D :D

Enjoy the community, man. :cool:

[Mr. Anderson]

It truly is a great community. I've been here for a while, but not as long as some and seen many changes, all for the better. And I'm confident that Geekfest will become a regular event, it was a blast going down and meeting some of the other members. I recommend it for everyone.

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[Durandal7]

Originally posted by dukestreet
It truly is a great community. I've been here for a while, but not as long as some and seen many changes, all for the better. And I'm confident that Geekfest will become a regular event, it was a blast going down and meeting some of the other members. I recommend it for everyone.


Yea, I remember back in the day when all we had was Hardware Rumors, Software Rumors and Article Discussion. Then we got Apple Collectors but that never went anywhere. Then a couple of members suggested General Mac Discussion to arn. After that we seemed to get a new forum every month. As for Geekfest I'll try and make it sometime, it sounds like a blast.

[Mr. Anderson]

geekfest was great. and in all honesty, I think it was better that there were only a few of us, we all got along and had a lot of fun. its definitely something I'd do again.

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[Durandal7]

Originally posted by dukestreet
geekfest was great. and in all honesty, I think it was better that there were only a few of us, we all got along and had a lot of fun. its definitely something I'd do again.

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Heh, it'd be a bit awkward if 30 members showed up and no one knew what to do.

[Mr. Anderson]

Originally posted by asurace


Heh, it'd be a bit awkward if 30 members showed up and no one knew what to do.

well, i don't think that would ever happen, especially in a place like New Orleans. Too much to do, actually. I'm thinking next year will have more people, and I'm not going to be surprised if there are more Geekfests before that.

Look for one in your neighborhood.....

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[teabgs]

You guys are just using this forum to talk amongst yourselves, there have hardly been any newbie posts here.

Thats cool and all, but I'd like to see more Newbies get up in here...I havent been here a lot lately cause Ive been busy, It'd be nice to have some fresh blood here when I'm lurking...:D

[Mr. Anderson]

Actually if you look around in the forums there are tons of new members posting, its pretty damn cool, if you ask me. I don't recognize half the people now. And we go almost another 500 members yesterday, talk about crazy.

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[teabgs]

really? thats pretty cool. I havent been around much since about 3 days before the expo. So I have only been reading the news articles and a select few threads.....havent noticed....

That's really cool though.

Every expo gets new members to start posting, soemtimes a lot....MWSF did it to me. :confused:

[King Cobra]

Considering arn has made the so called "official" newbies thread that pretty much makes this another community thread. :D

teabgs, a pre-congrats. on 1000. :D

Probably people have a sense to come here and not to any other site for rumors and s!!t. Those people should be rewarded. As for those who haven't posted yet, come on down! You might as well make a start with the "official" newbie thread. Enjoy! :D :cool:

[teabgs]

Originally posted by King Cobra


teabgs, a pre-congrats. on 1000. :D


Thanks Cobra.....maybe. I dont know how I feel about getting too 1000....though I have 2 more posts after this one....

Either it just makes my Geekness stand out more, shows I wasted a lot of time, or shows that I should spend my time being more productive. :rolleyes:

Oh well....that's not gonna change too much from how I am now....

It's all fun and good! :p Watch out ya'll I'm movin on up! :cool:

[bbarnhart]

Originally posted by magazineaddict
I've been a lurker for something in the realm of years. I read a lot of comments but just can't bring myself to reply because with so many members it seems that most angles get covered and I hate "Me Too" posts.

On this newbie thread, I think there are only 4 'newbie' posts and about 25 posts from people with avatars. I think they like to hear themselves talk. I've started posting recently, I would post more often, but how many times can you say the same thing.

[Mr. Anderson]

Originally posted by King Cobra
Considering arn has made the so called "official" newbies thread that pretty much makes this another community thread. :D


Ha, hopefully arn has more luck than I did. Its tough not to go and say something - but we got a few in here, maybe they'll stop by the other one - since it is official. Might have to make it a sticky so it doesn't drop off the bottom of the page....

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[richierich]

Hi guys, I have posted a couple of times although I tend to just read stuff. Have had an Ibook since jan this year and also bought a beautiful dell PC which I totally hate. XP was off within a day especially when i compared it to OSX!!!

I am selling the pC soon and getting my new G4 or whatever when they come out in August.

Macs are the best computers by far and Macrumors is the place where I have learnt loads of stuff.

Also have an Ipod (got before Ibook!!!)

Can anyone tell me if I can just delete os9 off my ibook - never use it and never want to:D

[King Cobra]

>...a beautiful dell PC...
I assume it looked like crap if it was beautiful. :D

Welcome, richmaster. Enjoy the forums.

I have no idea why you expect to be flamed (especially for your disrespect for the peecee world and for posting here). But, indeed, a welcome to the forums, big guy. :D

bbarnhart, have you seen any of the other posters with avatars? We all engage in ************* discussions for fun. It's a community discussion. Besides, if you want to hear someone love rambling, take a look at the Grokmyster's posts in one of the news threads regarding flamewars and off-topic posts.

>...how many times can you say the same thing.
>...how many times can you say the same thing.
>...how many times can you say the same thing.
>...how many times can you say the same thing.
>...how many times can you say the same thing.
:D :D

>(teabgs)Either [1000 posts] just makes my Geekness stand out more, shows I wasted a lot of time, or shows that I should spend my time being more productive.

I think it's a combination of all three! :D

Anyways, for all newbies registered on or after May, you can reply here or on the official newbie thread. It's right here in the Community section. :cool:

[ejb190]

Yah, I'm still a newbie, but I have been lurking long enough that I have gotten to know these guys with 500+ posts. This is a large and diverse enough community that I know if I don't voice my opinion, someone else will (or at least something similar). I also know that there are floks here who are more "geekier" than I. I come here looking for new opinions and input. I might have already bought a new iMac if I hadn't visited.

I guess what I am trying to say is, I am not the personality type (Myers-Briggs: ISTJ :D) who needs to be in the middle of every conversation, but I enjoy being part of it! While I don't always agree with them, I always enjoy hearing from the likes of Duke, Eye, King, and Mcrain

And is there anyone else out there who would be interested in a SCUBA-Geekfest? (If I put my 266 Wallstreet in a clear drybag, how deep could it go???)

[Mr. Anderson]

Originally posted by ejb190

And is there anyone else out there who would be interested in a SCUBA-Geekfest? (If I put my 266 Wallstreet in a clear drybag, how deep could it go???)

Ha! Well, unless there is an ELF (Extremely Low Frequency) option on the Airport card, you won't be posting sous le mer.....

[dynamicd]

I'm a newbie but have been observing for the past week or two...wanting to get a glimpse of what might be coming out at mac world. I"m going into my first year in college and was looking at macs b/c of my friend who has been a die-hard mac-user since he was born.

Anyway, the flat-panel imac always appealed to me and i just oredered the new 17" one the day it came out. And now that i'm about to be a mac-user i thought i owed it to myself to register here.

[Mr. Anderson]

welcome dynamicd to MacRumors - maybe you should go over and sign arn's official thread, some one needs to and you're the first one who could qualify who's posted here.

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