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Offline Mobius

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Re: :welcome: considered harmful
The second one, of course. :)
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kind of, it depends on different people and their personailities.
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Re: :welcome: considered harmful
You don't know the personality of a newcomes. You can try, but a confused post isn't enough.
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Re: :welcome: considered harmful
        I don't know. I rather enjoyed the welcome speech I received from you guys. It gave many inside jokes that had me shuffling through boards for months until I figured them out, it had wierd things like a hyper-intelligent shade of blue that reflected our personalities, and it made me feel like I was, well, welcome. The problem has become that the welcome speeches are too long. We don't need to mention Carl, the Hyper-Intelligent Shade of Blue, Black Wolf's latest faux pas, the newest verision of Inferno, Wing Commander, the Babylon Project, and the Star Wars Conversion all in one post. Let the newbs figure that out themselves. They obviously have a keyboard; if they have a question, they'll ask. The only thing we need to do is make the welcome speech more concise. And don't just give them a copy-pasted welcome speech. Half the fun of the speech is rewriting it (which reduces the version number list). Honestly, write your own, make it concise, and make it personal. The newb you introduce tomorrow just might be the next Woomeister.

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Offline Centrixo

Re: :welcome: considered harmful
You don't know the personality of a newcomes. You can try, but a confused post isn't enough.

was i taking about newcomers? no. i was talking about what kara said, from average forums members > newcomers. it depends on who is posting to a newcomer :).
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Re: :welcome: considered harmful
The newb you introduce tomorrow just might be the next Woomeister.

In fact, that's what I think. Many newcomers are working on new mods/conversions and they don't even have to wait before becoming important members of the community.

You don't know the personality of a newcomes. You can try, but a confused post isn't enough.

was i taking about newcomers? no. i was talking about what kara said, from average forums members > newcomers. it depends on who is posting to a newcomer :).

Ah, ok :)
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Re: :welcome: considered harmful
The newb you introduce tomorrow just might be the next Woomeister.

Yeah... It makes me sad when they come, ask a question and then disappear...

 

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Re: :welcome: considered harmful
Like I ?
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Offline Snail

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Re: :welcome: considered harmful
No, I mean like DISAPPEAR OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH!!!

not even lurk... :(

 

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Re: :welcome: considered harmful
I sent him PMs..."Post, Koth! Post!" And I had to wait a few months before getting a chance of welcoming him :nod:
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Re: :welcome: considered harmful
2nd one for sure......
i know i misspeld my name >_<

 

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Re: :welcome: considered harmful
I sent him PMs..."Post, Koth! Post!" And I had to wait a few months before getting a chance of welcoming him :nod:

Does this:
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Offline Colonol Dekker

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Re: :welcome: considered harmful
Is there any case of someone trying to be unwelcome to a new guy?
I know it happens on other boards, but i wouldn't expect to see it on HLP.
Campaigns I've added my distinctiveness to-
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-Between the Ashes 2
-Blue planet: Age of Aquarius
-FOTG?
-Inferno R1
-Ribos: The aftermath / -Retreat from Deneb
-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

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Offline Wobble73

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Re: :welcome: considered harmful
Is there any case of someone trying to be unwelcome to a new guy?
I know it happens on other boards, but i wouldn't expect to see it on HLP.

I've not seen unwelcoming messages, just a hint of exasperation sometimes when a newcomer posts a new thread with the title "Problem with ........?" type topics and then just posts an error log with no detail of if they are receiving a crash, when the crash happens, what kind of system they are running, which build they are using etc.

But no real unwelcomeness though!
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Offline Colonol Dekker

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Re: :welcome: considered harmful
Good, i would hate to see an unwelcome beam being fired on people. All in all overall the welcome paragraph can be a bit daunting i agree when a HLP virgin is being broken i by nine different 10 line+ paragraphs, i admit i wouldn't read them all myself.
Campaigns I've added my distinctiveness to-
- Blue Planet: Battle Captains
-Battle of Neptune
-Between the Ashes 2
-Blue planet: Age of Aquarius
-FOTG?
-Inferno R1
-Ribos: The aftermath / -Retreat from Deneb
-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

Your friendly Orestes tactical controller.

Secret bomb God.
That one time I got permabanned and got to read who was being bitxhy about me :p....
GO GO DEKKER RANGERSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Offline karajorma

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Re: :welcome: considered harmful
I've seen people make real asses of themselves when a newbie first posts a few times. Usually the admins step hard on that sort of thing though.
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Offline Colonol Dekker

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Re: :welcome: considered harmful
I have to admit, (as i always try to avoid hypocriticla statements) I'm sure i've been in high spirits at work in the past and it translated inappropriately to HLP and other web forums. TO name an example a fresh faced first time poster asked the epic of all old school fred vets "How do i add a ship?"


I replied "ALT & F4"


He wasn't happy and i now see the value of "think before post"  :nod:
Campaigns I've added my distinctiveness to-
- Blue Planet: Battle Captains
-Battle of Neptune
-Between the Ashes 2
-Blue planet: Age of Aquarius
-FOTG?
-Inferno R1
-Ribos: The aftermath / -Retreat from Deneb
-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

Your friendly Orestes tactical controller.

Secret bomb God.
That one time I got permabanned and got to read who was being bitxhy about me :p....
GO GO DEKKER RANGERSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The only good Zod is a dead Zod
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Offline Wobble73

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Re: :welcome: considered harmful
Like I said exasperation, or in other words/symbols/smileys.....................



 :rolleyes:
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Offline Polpolion

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Re: :welcome: considered harmful
Hey, everyone look at the welcome beam. Whats it say?

exactly. There is no need to say it once with the beam and a second time with anything else.

 

Offline Mobius

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Re: :welcome: considered harmful
Correct, there should be just one beam per newcomer. Some threads are a complete mess... just because of the presence of so many welcome beams :blah:
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