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    Is this forum too hard on newcomers?

    Poll to follow.
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    Yes, we should give a break until 100 posts reached
    16.13%
    5
    No, they can take it
    74.19%
    23
    It was only too hard on AndyW
    9.68%
    3

    #2
    Everyone is warned

    All hope abandon ye who enter here. Seriously.
    and to be honest most newcomers ask such stupid questions that they really do deserve it.
    merely at clientco for the entertainment

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      #3
      I don't remember people being particularly hard on me, there was some robust banter and a bit of name calling but that is all part of the fun IMO.
      While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'

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        #4
        Ah.

        No.

        Ted.
        "Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch." - Orson Welles

        Norrahe's blog

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          #5
          Nope. Man up.
          ...my quagmire of greed....my cesspit of laziness and unfairness....all I am doing is sticking two fingers up at nurses, doctors and other hard working employed professionals...

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            #6
            This forum set the benchmark in being hard on newcomers back in 2009. Me and the bedwetter movement have made it what it is today.

            Can we put it back again now please?
            Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.

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              #7
              Thats a ******* tulipe AndyW option. Have you ever done a poll before?
              Coffee's for closers

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                #8
                Sometimes. But you'd expect someone to lurk a bit first, not post a tittish first question, and stop being a tit when the error of your ways is pointed out.
                Or call Sas names - that usually gets a laugh.
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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Zippy View Post
                  Or call Sas names - that usually gets a laugh.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Zippy View Post
                    Sometimes. But you'd expect someone to lurk a bit first, not post a tittish first question, and stop being a tit when the error of your ways is pointed out.
                    I did that.

                    I lurked.

                    Used the search facility.

                    Asked people I knew in real life questions.

                    Then started posting.

                    I got negative reps with nasty sexist messages, including one full private message, from one particular person for about a year because I'm opinionated and female.

                    That person subsequently got banned repeatedly when they turned on other blokes in the open.

                    Other posters including the ones I've met in real life but not revealed who I am are generally nice people.
                    "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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