SR V: To boldly go where no room has gone before

rushfan4 wrote: birdwithteeth11 wrote: Epignosis wrote: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=59042] I want to post something so bad, but I don't want to be the jerk that does. I posted, but I was just being a smarta*s It is funny, but just remember that us collabs are suppose to behave a certain way within the forums and not behave like idiots to newbies.  And senior members who have any interest in becoming collabs should probably pay heed as well.

I know. I just quoted someone else in the thread, and only indirectly to the topic.

I don't mean to be rude, but to me, that Porcupine Tree thread is no different than making a thread that's been done a hundred times- if you spend more than 10 minutes just looking around the site, you will see that Porcupine Tree is a very well known band here.  Get to know about a site just a little bit before you start posting in it, I say.

It's like going into a video game forum and saying, "Gee everyone- have you heard of Halo? It's great!"

Epignosis wrote: I don't mean to be rude, but to me, that Porcupine Tree thread is no different than making a thread that's been done a hundred times- if you spend more than 10 minutes just looking around the site, you will see that Porcupine Tree is a very well known band here.  Get to know about a site just a little bit before you start posting in it, I say. It's like going into a video game forum and saying, "Gee everyone- have you heard of Halo? It's great!"

I don't disagree.  It still doesn't give us the right to be a****les to a newbie; especially as collaborators.

I mean seriously, at this point how often is a new thread original. 

Edited by rushfan4 - June 25 2009 at 14:31

rushfan4 wrote: I mean seriously, at this point how often is a new thread original.  Edit:  And since I haven't played at any games since the days of Pacman, I could very well be the poor chap who "discovers" Halo and goes on line to share it with others.  (I've heard of Halo but have never seen or played it).

I see original threads all the time (and strive to make my own).

But that's not my point. Discovering Halo and being excited about it (and even telling others in a forum you discovered it) is one thing, but starting a new thread in a video game forum to tell others they should check out Halo is going to garner you no small amount of ridicule.

But you're right that it doesn't mean we need to be rude.

This is even worse... Today must be the day of the weirdos here on PA!

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=59047

Henry Plainview wrote: rushfan4 wrote: I don't disagree.  It still doesn't give us the right to be a****les to a newbie; especially as collaborators. He joined in July 2008, if he hasn't bothered to look at the pages for Deadwing and FOABP or do a single search for PT since then, that is his fault and I don't think he counts as a newbie anymore. And I am reasonably sure he wasn't being entirely serious anyway: those links to his band at the bottom makes me think it was a self-promotion post that he was attempting to mask with a post, but since he only put a second of thought into it it ended up silly.

I'd say that 16 posts does make him a newbie.  I would suspect that he probably hasn't been here since he originally posted in July 2008, but I ain't going to waste my time to prove otherwise.  Trust me when I say that people making useless threads without using the search function pisses me off more than anyone else here on the forums.  It still doesn't make it right to behave like a****les. 

That was more amazing than the blue and green illusion.

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