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Eroberer is offline Eroberer
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"Myths which are believed in tend to become true"
Jan 1970
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Heard about this thread in the OT and didn't think it really existed. I think vets should be the only ones allowed to rate a thread, since this one is missing a star that it should have have.

Eroberer is offline Eroberer
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"Myths which are believed in tend to become true"
Jan 1970
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Got spare money?

Why do my most ridiculus posts always end up at the top of the thread pages

Dis is offline Dis
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Feb 2000
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hey this looks like a good thread to say newbies suck

the funny thing is they are so dense they will take offense of that

and they will even take offense of the second statement.

it is so easy to provoke people

Dis is offline Dis
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Las Vegas, Nevada
Feb 2000
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Full PM-box? Change here!

I have it set up that only someone with over 1000 posts can PM me.

I routinely discriminate against newbies. I should be put in jail for that.

Eroberer is offline Eroberer
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"Myths which are believed in tend to become true"
Jan 1970
time: 00:16
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I only came in this forum to add people to my ignore list.

The amount of pleasure I get from this should be illegal.

LaRusso is offline LaRusso
King
appendix of Europe
May 2001
time: 06:16
  Old Post 21-11-2001 15:15
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mark should close this nonsense of a thread

Eroberer is offline Eroberer
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"Myths which are believed in tend to become true"
Jan 1970
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ignore count + 1

CyberShy is offline CyberShy

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Delft, The Netherlands
Mar 1999
time: 06:16
  Old Post 21-11-2001 15:27
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vets: finish the lines:

When I was a newbie..................
But these days..................

When I was a newbie I PM the vets to ask if I could respond to their topics
But these days the newbies complain if you post a valid counter argument to their silly opion.


The writer of the most original lines will get a prize.
That prize will be uuuuuh.......uuuuuhh........ postcount + 1

Eroberer is offline Eroberer
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"Myths which are believed in tend to become true"
Jan 1970
time: 00:16
  Old Post 21-11-2001 15:36
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Inflate your Upload Space

When I was a newbie, I bothered to read posts of more than one line
But these days I read the first line and fill in the rest based on the poster's name.

Eroberer is offline Eroberer
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"Myths which are believed in tend to become true"
Jan 1970
time: 00:16
  Old Post 21-11-2001 15:41
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damn, look at the views to post ratio of this thread and some others here

LaRusso is offline LaRusso
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May 2001
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  Old Post 21-11-2001 15:58
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yeah, AH threads attract flies, flaming posters and lurking trollers

Alexander's Horse is offline Alexander's Horse
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Panmunjon, hands up!
Jan 1970
time: 15:16
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quote:
Originally posted by LaRusso
mark should close this nonsense of a thread


Typical Serb.

LaRusso is offline LaRusso
King
appendix of Europe
May 2001
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quote:
Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
Typical Serb.


well if i were black, jew or gay there would be a whole caccophony of screams over your remark, but since i am only a serb, could you politely inform me what was 'inherently serbian' in my remark?

Roland is offline Roland
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Auf'm Jahrmarkt :(
May 1999
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  Old Post 21-11-2001 18:42
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Must be your stealthy ways.....

Immortal Wombat is offline Immortal Wombat
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Dec 2000
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DarkCloud: Garth Vader

Me no newbie. newbies stink until they tell a funny joke, or do something legendary

LaRusso is offline LaRusso
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appendix of Europe
May 2001
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quote:
Originally posted by Roland
Must be your stealthy ways.....


hahah...roland...bought the game already? how do you like it?

MOBIUS is offline MOBIUS
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Prifysgol Caerdydd
Dec 1999
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Some of you 'vets' are really putting yourselves to shame!!!

We were all newbies once, and we should be celebrating our newest members as worthy additions to the Apolyton community - not abuse them...

Welcome Newbies!

Don't worry about all this elitist bullcrap

DarkCloud is offline DarkCloud
Civ3 Stories Editor
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Jul 2000
time: 05:16
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quote:
Originally posted by The Eliminator
*Looks up at DarkCloud*

What a goof!

All I'm saying is that not everyone keeps documented records on the history of the forums here. Have you noticed that your "veteran" contemporaries have not answered your questions either? It's because absolutely no one knows, or cares!

Actually, you should come to the OT many people start threads with questions like I listed Though it is generally myself.

quote:

I'm sure I'm not the only one who goes through phases with Civ, sometimes I don't read the forums for months on end, and sometimes I'm on here a few times a day. So I can't answer your question on the Area25 thing, or whatever, but I can tell you that I used to check out The First Greek Site back when it used to really suck. I also used to follow The Ultimate site, and Civ Fanatics when that Thunderfall dude first started it. The Ultimate forum used to rock, but that was before your time.


Actually not- I posted at the Civ II Universe around Aug 1999 or sometime from then to Dec 1999- but I suppose you "could" say it was before my time, since it was nearly abandoned then Then again, I didn't have the internet @ home before Aug 1999- however, I did have access to the internet at other places and found Markos' and Dans' sites around Dec 1998- when I got the internet in Aug 1999- I looked for the Ultimate Civ II site and couldn't find it- in Dec 1999 or so I found Apolyton, and in March 2000 I found the forums. (I couldn't view them since I wasnt registered) Then in Aug 2000, I registered and posted here.
Also, In about Dec or Nov 1999 I also found civFanatics

the thing in your post that annoyed me was the forums saying- but since you say that you checked out all those forums- I respect you more now.

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No one has said it better than sachmo71 about the way you "vets" confuse a game forum for actual social interaction! The last time I farted around this area, I got so bored of the game that I dropped it for a while. There was some dude called "Wife Hates Civ" or something constantly spamming, some guy named "Scouse Grits" or whatever, trying to make an actual "Great Library" and it just gets pathetic.


How dare you bash Scouse Gits- that person is three people; but at least you answered the question Why bash him/her/him- they were trying to do something worthwhile!!! That is merely insulting.

quote:

The only "vet" in the last 3 weeks that has posted anything remotely interesting is "Venger," all of the other posts that are neat or cool have been those from "newbies."


??? What about the Civ IV List- then again- you don't like lists (see your comment on Great Library)

sachmo71 is offline sachmo71
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de Tejas
May 2001
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Put an end to popups!

A BOOK about a MESSAGE BOARD?

WOW!

I have seen it, and now I know that some of you people need professional help.

Evil_Eric_4 is offline Evil_Eric_4
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Nov 2001
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Welcome Like your handle.-AH
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Thanx-it is from CFS2-didnt feel like renaming myself



Also if anyone is offended by my sig dont worry its written in german (TRANSLATION--------The-bin Laden-The)
btw how does one paste a quote from someone else?

Stefu is offline Stefu
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CLOWNS WIT DA DOWNS 4 LIFE YO!
Jan 1970
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Why was this moved to OT?

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This forum has also turned into a kind of newbie hell.

A newbie is a newbie so long as they want to be classified as one. As soon as they stop making newbie comments and just act like a poster who only got here recently its entirely different. Its the vast number of unknown people posting that has upset the balance, and the Civ3 forum has been a breeding ground for rampant unchecked newbieism, as no-one is/can be a Civ3 "vet". As soon as people start to leave, the ones who remain will be better known, and the crap will get filterd out, and the respectable will be respected, "newbie" or "vet" or "new vet", or "old newbie" or whatever.

Lazarus and the Gimp is offline Lazarus and the Gimp
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Whale-raping abomination
Aug 2000
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  Old Post 22-11-2001 03:42
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AH first showed up here the same month that I did- over April/May 1999. EVC first started posting at the same time.

The poor, innocent forum never really knew what hit it....

MORON is offline MORON
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Vancouver, Canada
Jun 2001
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War is peace......

Lazarus and the Gimp is offline Lazarus and the Gimp
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Oh yes. The "newbie" issue.

Anyone making a post about "newbies" without distancing themself from the label inevitably becomes possessed by the god of twattery until the "post" button is pressed. There are many, many things that drive me to distraction, but one of the most reliable is some drivelling half-wit with an overly-inflated sense of their own worth whining like a miserable puppy about "newbies".

Alexander's Horse is offline Alexander's Horse
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Panmunjon, hands up!
Jan 1970
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We're just shy

Dis is offline Dis
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this really doesn't make sense in the off topic. newbies don't post in the OT because it doesnt' raise their post count. but b!tching about civ3 does raise their post count. think about it.

TCO is offline TCO
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Richmond, VA
Jan 1970
time: 00:16
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quote:
Originally posted by Bugs ****ing Bunny
AH first showed up here the same month that I did- over April/May 1999. EVC first started posting at the same time.

The poor, innocent forum never really knew what hit it....


It was a bad month all around. Errr...is there some connection for your 3??

TCO is offline TCO
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Jan 1970
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Actually I'm not that much of an elitest. Ahhh...who am I kidding...I am an elitist.

But it's funny, when the newbies don't even understand what the newbie title means. In the past, there was not that much crap given the newbies. But they also didn't disrupt the boards and just sort of trample around like little baby hippos...

Alexander's Horse is offline Alexander's Horse
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Panmunjon, hands up!
Jan 1970
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The thing I found funny about this thread was that I didn't in fact bash newbies. All I suggested was posters should post in the right forums. Then the thread took some interesting turns

I've never understood the obsession some posters have with start dates, vet status and such. This is just a MESSAGE BOARD for Christ's sake.

 
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