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Location: Vernon CT | Ok, We've had a lot of "Newbies" sign up lately, A good thing, the more the merrier. My question is just how long are you considered a "Newbie"?And when does one NOT be a "Newbie" anymore?
Number of posts? ,Time spent as a member regardless of posts? How many guitars one has/had? (OK TJ, your the prez!! LOL)How many get together's you've been to? Just curious what some of you think. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | 1.3 years and over a 1000 posts and learned to use the "Search" function. |
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Location: closely held secret | Ditto on the Search function. Also has to know how to post pics, post links without the 500 character URL showing, have bought at least one guitar from T28, TJ or Toby, and had at least one weeks "vacation". |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I'm still a newbie compared to those old farts like Jeff and John. I couldn't post pics until I quit trying to follow John's directions. I think I learned how to do the short link, but probably only tried it once and then forgot the next time. I haven't met any other of John's criteria.
I always thought a "newbie" correlated with "Junior Member", which went away at something like 25 posts. And for any other Newbies out there, remember that learning to play the guitar is way more important than learning to play on the computer. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Darn Wab! You just keep raising the bar to keep me out? |
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Location: big island | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
...And for any other Newbies out there, remember that learning to play the guitar is way more important than learning to play on the computer. and guitars are babe magnets. |
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Location: closely held secret | You caught me, Phil. If it makes you feel any better, it was a group decision. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Originally posted by lanaki:
and guitars are babe magnets. Until you marry the babe and the magnet reverses its polarity. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Might want to check your wiring on that Mark. It still works for me....much to my occasional chagrin. The wife was out with me New Years when a young girl offered 'boobage' for special favours. Fortunately, she thought it was as funny as I did.
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Waskel, yes. As long as it's unanimous. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | "Ditto on the Search function. Also has to know how to post pics, post links without the 500 character URL showing, have bought at least one guitar from T28, TJ or Toby, and had at least one weeks "vacation".
In that case all I have left is to tell the joke about the Democratic Priest from Illinois...
I did give myself a two week time-out from the OFC once. I ended up losing my fingerprints and found 9 new chords in the Key of "E"! |
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Location: South of most, North of few | I'm thinking of taking a little off time myself to get to play a little instead of just talking about it. |
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Location: New York | "Also has to know how to post pics, post links without the 500 character URL showing"
Ouch, BTW, is there someplace here with instructions on how to post pics in your messages?
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Location: GA USA | Hoss, just post them at the other site, copy the url of the pic, and use the Full Reply Form to add them to a message. |
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Location: closely held secret | Or you can read this . |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | I must still be a Newbie.
Been here for 2+ Years....
Posted too many times...most are irrelevant anyway
Bought AND sold guitars to TJ...
Attended and Happily hosted gettagethers...
BUT, I haven't been or placed on vacation yet...
Hi, I am Beggin...errr...Newbie Beggin. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | I will say that once your post count reaches your guitar model number... you're in! |
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Location: closely held secret | Ooh, I like that one. Do you have to add all your models together? |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | if Woody adds all the numbers of all the parts of one of his creations together, then what does that make him..? |
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Location: Upper Left USA | ...tired? |
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Location: Maine | At my age, I'm delighted to be called a newbie. Seriously though, I think that as it is with entering any new venture, going from newbie to veteran is a process, not an event. To get to veteran status, a newbie has to post. Posting is participating, and participating is essential on a board like this. Having said that, it wouldn't be a bad rule that said a newbie could not post for 30 days after joining. During that time, they are to lurk and study the features of the board, hence, posting photos,URL'S, etc. This would give the newbie time to decide if they wanted to stick around, or opt out. It is equally important to be able to offer up a lucid, and coherent post, but the veterans on this board should expect that the newbie will add a fair amount of trivial posts too (Again, guilty, and I haven't even had that many of them).
Unless encumbered by extreme circumstances, travel and participating in a gathering is essential too as far as I'm concerned. To achieve true veteran status, a newbie needs to be willing to connect in person with those he/she has been sharing with.
Buying a guitar from someone specific or getting suspended as a requirement, not so much.
Whatever else it is, I have learned very quickly that there are very good people on this board that have a wealth of knowledge and they are freely sharing that information. That, in my opinion, is not to be taken lightly. That kind of information is invaluable and could cost dearly with teachers, tuners and technicians!
There, I've just concluded a coherent and lucid post on this thread which I pray will move me a bit closer to be included as an old fart (which I am). |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Originally posted by MWoody:
...tired? :D
Nice post Wagon! |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Nubee..Proud of it !
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Originally posted by MWoody:
I will say that once your post count reaches your guitar model number... you're in! So.... I\'m NOT a newbie any more??? |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Another good reason to have a 1112 as your first Ovation! |
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Location: Central Oregon | New-Be or not New-be, that is the question. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Originally posted by MWoody:
Another good reason to have a 1112 as your first Ovation! ...or a 1111, (which I just so happen to have for sale) :D |
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Location: Vernon CT | WOW!! Based on some of your criteria I, at 1189 posts and 16ish months am still a "Newb".
Can't post picks yet as much as I've tried.Can't change the "name" of a link if that makes sense to anyone. I DO know how to use "search"!!! :) and I have reach enough post to go past a model # (310, oops sorry ;) ) I mean 1112 You guy's are tough! :) ;) :p |
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Location: Maine | 
In a continued effort to earn my veteran strips, here is my first attempt at posting a photo. Let's see how this works. Here we go....... |
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Location: Maine | Darn!@#$%. Back to the drawing board. |
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Location: Maine | 
OK, Here is attempt number two. Ready, set, click. |
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Location: Maine | HOZZAH! Does this mean I can graduate now? |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Not graduation yet, but you have earned your first little scout badge "I can post pictures". |
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Location: Maine | Thanks, Richard, I'll keep working toward those highly coveted, hard to come by, OFC badges! |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | badges...OFC members don't need no stinkin badges! |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | But you Do Need a steenking OFC hat!
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Location: North Wales, UK. | I reckon all newbies (thats me!) should conduct a comprehensive initiative test to determin if the said person could qualify as 'Veteran' or 'VIP' status.
It's dead easy-peasey, the test being: Count the total number of fingers you have on both hands (the hand swap-over could be difficult). If you count up to 10 then you can consider yourself as Vet or VIP.
I myself sadly, failed the test as I could only count up to 8. |
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Location: Vernon CT | Originally posted by Wagonmaster:
OK, Here is attempt number two. Ready, set, click. |
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by Nils:
New-Be or not New-be, that is the question. You start a gorgeous soliloquy, then neglect to finish it? Shame!
New-Be , or not New-Be --that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous OFC posters
Or to take arms against a sea of knockoffs and cheap imitations...
Ummmmmmmmm...can't remember the rest. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | "New-Be , or not New-Be --that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous OFC posters
Or to take arms against a sea of" Taylors,
And in opposing slag them?
To post: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand AC shocks
That wiring is prone to, 'tis an O-bsession
Devoutly to be wish'd.
....and something about a bare bodkin and an undiscovered country....it just goes on and on until the intermission. AH, the intermission!
Cheap wine served fast.
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Of course, the quick and nasty way to lose noobness is to just get Miles or Al drunk. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | "Out, out damn Spot!"
Shakespeare must have had a dog... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | What's a search engine? And How the Hell DO you post pictures????......... |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | You're a newbie until someone else comes along newer than you. |
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Location: Newington, CT | Sooo...I figure that I am now posting my 10000001st message. In binary, that is. In octal, I'm a comparative newcomer at 101. In that pesky, silly decimal system all youse humanoids use, I'm at a measly 65 or so. It's even worse in Hex: 40. So I prefer binary, where I have you ALL beat by a country mile -- whether or NOT I've EVER posted pictures or anything else.
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh...ok? |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Can't post pictures, can't post links. Never been on vacation. Owned my first Ovation in 1969, but I'm still a newbie. AAUGH! I feel like such a failure! |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | You can't fail if you never try.
(the first line of a new tune, Losers Lullaby) |
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Location: south east Michigan | Originally posted by CanterburyStrings:
AAUGH! I feel like such a failure! Fear not.
Your "past experience" qualification got you past junior member status after your first post. |
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What is the definition of and how long until?