[aldo_14]

Originally posted by CaptJosh
Next time, try to put things more constructively, please. The term n00b is going to be inflamatory to any experienced gamer/beta tester/webboarder. And it most deffinitely is going to be offensive to someone who can compile and install applications from source on Linux.

I think I'm going to ask the admin if they want to censor that word and it's derivatives.  Mind you, it's probably worse that a perfectly innocous concept like 'a new person' has been subverted into an insult.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by aldo_14
I think I'm going to ask the admin if they want to censor that word and it's derivatives.  Mind you, it's probably worse that a perfectly innocous concept like 'a new person' has been subverted into an insult.

The insult implied is that someone who should know better is acting in the exact same fashion as someone who is completely new to the net and hasn't had time to learn proper netiquette yet (A further implication is that the person probably never will learn either as they are too stupid).

The problem is that people frequently apply it wrongly (as it was here).

[WMCoolmon]

I think I'm going to ask the admin if they want to censor that word and it's derivatives. Mind you, it's probably worse that a perfectly innocous concept like 'a new person' has been subverted into an insult.

Not to derail the thread, but that's probably not a good idea as it might look like people were calling them some other four-letter word.

[CaptJosh]

There are other ways to censor it. On some boards. "newbie" and variants are censored to the words "welcomed guest". On at least one board I've seen, it gets changed to "well versed veteran". Now let's please stop hijacking this thread already.

[Inquisitor]

Why in the hell is this in this forum?

Take it up privately or somewhere else.

[karajorma]

It was split from the Post the stuff you asked for during the code freeze' thread. Probably should have been closed when that was done.