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Hello.
In this passage, I will to refer to many things, this is what they mean.
"Regulars" - These kind hearted people come onto your website, and have fun talking to eachother, and post some great topics about games. Examples of these are: Ant, Elitesniper, Dan, Fogmaster, Fantasymeister. These people hardly win games, compared to the amount of work they do.
"We" - This also refers to the "regulars".
"Newbies" - These are the people that come on here SOLELY to win games, 95% of these will write one thing, steal a game from you, and then leave. The remaining 5% will stay after winning a game. These people do less work, and win more games.
"Staff" - This refers to anyone that works at Special Reserve.
We are getting very tired, and agitated at the fact that people come on here and win games, and never come back here again. This portrays the feeling of the forum simply being "used". We do not treat this forum like the 95% of newbies do. I.E. We do not have one night stands.
We care about the forum, and we enjoy returning to it, to post more things about games, and to talk to eachother. It is a social gathering as well as a games forum.
The staff, I believe, fail to see that we put much more effort and work into the site than the 95% of newbies, and also fail to realise that the newbies put no effort into maintaining their status in the forum.
Therefore, I propose this compremise. The newbies are unable to win, UNLESS they post at least 10 decent posts, which all refer to the name of the forum.
I have no say on the status of the reviews. I am happy that people can win with one review. I am unhappy with the fact that we put more time into the site than they do, but I understand that reviews have a better chance of winning a game.
However, it seems that newbies have a better chance than we do of winning a game. It also seems that whoever chooses gameaday fails to fully take in what has been written, and will ignore it if they have won before.
To summarise: We are unhappy with amount of newbies which simply leave after winning; we want newbies to post 10 decent topics before winning, to make the forum more effienent; and we want to have the same chance as winning as the newbies, which will also encourage more people to stay.
Thank you for reading. Any comments from the regulars will be welcomed.
In this passage, I will to refer to many things, this is what they mean.
"Regulars" - These kind hearted people come onto your website, and have fun talking to eachother, and post some great topics about games. Examples of these are: Ant, Elitesniper, Dan, Fogmaster, Fantasymeister. These people hardly win games, compared to the amount of work they do.
"We" - This also refers to the "regulars".
"Newbies" - These are the people that come on here SOLELY to win games, 95% of these will write one thing, steal a game from you, and then leave. The remaining 5% will stay after winning a game. These people do less work, and win more games.
"Staff" - This refers to anyone that works at Special Reserve.
We are getting very tired, and agitated at the fact that people come on here and win games, and never come back here again. This portrays the feeling of the forum simply being "used". We do not treat this forum like the 95% of newbies do. I.E. We do not have one night stands.
We care about the forum, and we enjoy returning to it, to post more things about games, and to talk to eachother. It is a social gathering as well as a games forum.
The staff, I believe, fail to see that we put much more effort and work into the site than the 95% of newbies, and also fail to realise that the newbies put no effort into maintaining their status in the forum.
Therefore, I propose this compremise. The newbies are unable to win, UNLESS they post at least 10 decent posts, which all refer to the name of the forum.
I have no say on the status of the reviews. I am happy that people can win with one review. I am unhappy with the fact that we put more time into the site than they do, but I understand that reviews have a better chance of winning a game.
However, it seems that newbies have a better chance than we do of winning a game. It also seems that whoever chooses gameaday fails to fully take in what has been written, and will ignore it if they have won before.
To summarise: We are unhappy with amount of newbies which simply leave after winning; we want newbies to post 10 decent topics before winning, to make the forum more effienent; and we want to have the same chance as winning as the newbies, which will also encourage more people to stay.
Thank you for reading. Any comments from the regulars will be welcomed.
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No, I didn't invent the term newbie... you were treated well Sheepy because you weren't some sort of biased freak who's only goal in life is to bore the hell out of us.
Do you think I'm going over the top with this? ;0)
Do you think I'm going over the top with this? ;0)
newbie rules began on 01/11/00
I was wondering about that! I bet he was the one that invented it.
I survived the abuse of being a newbie - actually I was treated surprisinly well foor a newbie If I remember - ahh long time ago!
I survived the abuse of being a newbie - actually I was treated surprisinly well foor a newbie If I remember - ahh long time ago!
It's official.
Grix was never a newbie.
He was here before there was such a thing.
Grix was never a newbie.
He was here before there was such a thing.
Never.
When all you lot came along though, you were interesting people, and you still are.
We've had our mess ups in the past, but we've always made the effort to make interesting original posts, and we understand that people do and will get fed up with the same old arguements.
It's comfortably quiet in here today. You would think there would be more on...
When all you lot came along though, you were interesting people, and you still are.
We've had our mess ups in the past, but we've always made the effort to make interesting original posts, and we understand that people do and will get fed up with the same old arguements.
It's comfortably quiet in here today. You would think there would be more on...
I wonder if Grix was ever a newbie?
Ha... somethings never change...
It's not the winning that annoys me now though, it's their lack of intelligence.
It's not the winning that annoys me now though, it's their lack of intelligence.
From the past. Grix vs Newbies.
AARRGGGHHHH! I'm a regular that just won! That must make me a complete freak of nature! NOOOOOOOOO!
Ahem, by the time I won for the first time I was sort of a regular (most people knew me and I came on a lot).
Oh, and ANT, Grix etc never had a problem with newbies until everytime someone new came on, there was a huge topic about the future of gaming that had been done again and again before!
Ahem, by the time I won for the first time I was sort of a regular (most people knew me and I came on a lot).
Oh, and ANT, Grix etc never had a problem with newbies until everytime someone new came on, there was a huge topic about the future of gaming that had been done again and again before!
How bout' writing part of what it says. Plus the date, magazine number and tell ali if it's the truth!
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