Has anyone else noticed the newbie explosion. There are ALOT of new people. I have a list of the people who have joined after me.

arrandildoandcompany
israphael
lara7
DH-10
mankyman
itsclark
Kevin Keegans Perm
Grayfox
menbah
chonchball
wenisinfurs
parsley
fuck
lemur68
fuzzyman
mondlicht
jezabel666
hellenicbadass
nafla
madman
vekktor
Kevin Keegans peepee
Cremlian
mistergiantrobot
????
TOBOR
meh
and these are just the people that use the forums. Has it always been like this?

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Yeah, boy....

Nervey bastards.

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

I'm almost completely certain DH-01 and itsclark were around before josh was...

Not to mention Tobor.

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"Oh, look, a joke! How original! Thank you, but if I wanted my emotions stimulated pleasurably, I'd get a whore." - Donald B. Jones III

OKay my mistake, itsclark was here before me, but DH-10 wasnt and TOBOR wasnt actually a stripcreator member until about a week after i was.

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Does this....

mean

anything?

8- /

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

DH was here back in March, and Tobor's first comic on his current account was on August 9th. And he had one long before the database merger.

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"Oh, look, a joke! How original! Thank you, but if I wanted my emotions stimulated pleasurably, I'd get a whore." - Donald B. Jones III

WELL WHERE THE HELL HAVE THEY BEEN. Well I can understand why TOBOR wasn't here, but DH-10? Anyway 3 out of like 30 or something isnt that bad, and the ones i missed do more than make uup for the lost spaces. And I still ask this question, Has it always been like this?

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Just what is with the influx of newbies lately? Damn, they suck. Why can't everybody be a long-standing acquaintance of mine? I resent the fact that there are people that I don't know, and that they're out there right now, doing things -- without me!

What, you mean people showing up and posting stuff? No, it was never like this.

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"Oh, look, a joke! How original! Thank you, but if I wanted my emotions stimulated pleasurably, I'd get a whore." - Donald B. Jones III

Has it always been like what? Have asshole newbies come in here and challenged the way things are without having anything close to enough experience or background to make demands? Yes. It's been happening here, and on other forums, chat groups, channels, newsgroups, bulletin board systems, etc. since time immemorial. It happens in real life, too. The difference is that in real life, spaztards can be booted in the face.

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I am a delicate fucking flower. https://beacons.ai/jesskent

I'm just gratified to have my name mentioned over and over, in this or any thread. Please feel free to argue about my standing in the forums any time.

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"You'll burn for this. Burn in jail!"

i was here before you, josh, but menbah was a creation of mine from just the other night... if you'd bother to research, you'd know menbah wasn't a newbie, in the technical sense. besides, from what i've seen, the good newbies wind up sticking around, while the bad ones get the hint quickly and bugger off.

of course, some of them get the hint very slowly. they still bugger off, though. (:

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- christ@myself.com - fuck a cat, kill yourself - my alter ego has five stars

[Click to view comic: 'The mild-mannered stripper']

itsclark's impressive package, that is...

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Would you like a serious answer to your question? As LadyJ mentioned, these forums, as with many things, on and offline, have an influx of new people. As with most things, they don't all stick around. People pop in, stick their feet in the proverbial pool to test the water, and most just disappear. A few stick around to make up the core of people that seem to have little else to do than sit around here and shoot the shit.

I started taking Aikido classes about two months ago. Since I've joined I've seen more than a dozen new people start. I asked the same sort of question you're asking, and some of the senior students told me that about 90% of the newbies disappear in the first month. Sean, the friend of mine that turned me on to the whole idea and started at the same time has already given up, not being able to juggle a full time job, school and still go to Aikido a couple of times a week.

So no matter what you're talking about, you're going to have new people. And maybe there have been a few more than usual lately, but the longer Stripcreator hangs around, the more likely people are to find out about it.

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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.

Aikido = ancient Japanese art of dragon-felching

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"And Wirthling isn't worth the paper he isn't printed on."

You should know, master. It is from you that I have learned all of my techniques. Soon I will leave your dojo and make my way in the world.

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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.

Patience, grasshopper.

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"And Wirthling isn't worth the paper he isn't printed on."

Freak job.

I have little doubt that some of the newbies are all the same person. I've always felt that Deisel is smarter than he lets on and takes on multiple personas in some kind of grand social experiment the likes of which only Hari Seldon has ever dreamt!

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I ate a hooker half a bottle of knife.

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Has anyone else noticed the newbie explosion. There are ALOT of new people. I have a list of the people who have joined after me.

arrandildoandcompany...
and these are just the people that use the forums. Has it always been like this?

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And I'm sure your mother would be proud.

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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.

Yes, but I'm a QUALITY newbie. As a comic fan who does humor in other mediums -- see www.dumbentia.com -- but can't draw worth a crap, this is a godsend.

Speaking of which, how many strips or how much time does it take to graduate from Newbie to something more respectable?

I think stripcreator got a mention somewhere on Keenspot. It least, that is where I found out about it... don't remember exactly which strip.

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...Trot and Cap'n Bill were free from anxiety and care. Button-Bright never worried about anything. The Scarecrow, not being able to sleep, looked out of the window and tried to count the stars.

Growing out of newbiedom requires the following three things:

1) You stop referring to yourself as a newbie, but you don't get all defensive if others do.
2) You accept this group as it is. We are a lot of people; you are one. Pathetic newbie whinings just ensure that the newbie stays a newbie, and an unliked one, at that.
3) You don't actively try to jump out of newbie level on your own. Becoming a non-newbie cannot be forced. People who are cool enough to not be newbies for long will be accepted much more rapidly just as a rule. Trying to force that situation is lame, because it means you're walking around saying, "Am I cool yet? How about now? Still not cool? OK, how about now?"

This is just as I see it.

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I am a delicate fucking flower. https://beacons.ai/jesskent