What is your time definition of a newbie?
Is it generally accepted that all "newbies" arrive brain dead?
Is there a "trial period" followed by some sort of rite of passage?
What name is given to a newbie once they graduate?
And just a general observation: I take it you don't really like x42 very well. :)
Is it generally accepted that all "newbies" arrive brain dead? --- Absolutely not. Most come here with some disdain for Scumbag and in time learn to really hate him. I like that.
Is there a "trial period" followed by some sort of rite of passage? --- No trial period. They just have to avoid being blithering idiots and spouting the DNC party line. If they use key words like "stolen election," "killing old people and babies," "poisoning the water," or "oil man," they have nothing I want to hear.
What name is given to a newbie once they graduate? --- Why, FReeper, of course.
And just a general observation: I take it you don't really like x42 very well. :) --- Surprisingly, I thought I loathed him as much as was humanly possible. After seeing him rush to NY and fondle female victims, the loathing became even more intense. His destruction of our security, which some of us have been screaming about for 8 years, is why we had 9-11-01.