Posted on 08/20/2004 5:57:29 PM PDT by Indy Pendance
All you newbies whose screen number is over 100,000 (plus infinity, or minus a couple thousand), this thread is for you. What's it like to be 'new' here? Are you welcomed? What do you think of FR? Do you feel 'part of the gang'? This thread is for you. Lay it on us.
Your #9097. Just place your cursor over you screen name on a previous post (responding to another FReeper). You should be able to see your sign up date appear w/o clicking. Click to go to your homepage, then click on "In Forum". The number sequence in the address line is your sign on number.
666?
heh, heh, heh, (not really, just a welcome to those newbies who aren't so new anymore ~ wow, 100,000 isn't a newbie...)
Hey I'm #1565... I've never actually checked until now. The only thing I have to brag about is evading those viking kitties for so long. .zzzz *duck* .zzooot! Pretty good huh? ;-)
I signed up for Free Republic the first night it went live. Unfortunately I changed my screenname a few months later and got a slightly higher number.
I must be very old."
I am a fossil. I am #56 but go back at least 2 years before the SW change.
Let's see your wound.
I lurked 2 years before I had the guts to sign up. Lots of smart folks here.
Everyone over #3000 is a newb AFAIC(oncerned).
You will be well established by election night, and people will be hanging on your every word.
(Hey, it could happen. ;D)
Not certain how serious this thread is (haven't read all of it) but it applies to me. I registered a couple of weeks ago after several years of lurking. Have only participated in one thread but hope to do more as time goes by. There are so many interesting threads and valuable news items that a guy could spend all day every day on FR, and of course that would have negative consequences on job and marriage. So I still lurk rather than actively posting.
I received several "welcome" responses to my initial post and had some good dialog with one Freeper who took the time to share his thoughts and experience (thanks again Chieftain).
My sense is that newcomers are welcomed cautiously, and I fully understand why. I have lurked long enough to realize that some people register just to make trouble and I would not expect long-time Freepers to open up to me as a newbie. Perhaps some feel that "cliques" are hard to break in to, but at the same time most of us want to be a bit selective in our interactions and we are looking for high-quality dialog and ideas. So I think newbies like me should expect a "probationary period" during our early days of posting.
FR is a tremendous resource and I am grateful to those who took the time to reply to me with even a one line "Welcome to FR".
This used to be much easier to see. As I recall, my number is something like 1192 or so. But I don't see any number where I think you've told me to look.
LOL!!!! Like I said, FReepers are the wittiest people on earth!!!
What I don't get is what is going on with poster #2? (Unknown)
"I've been here since May and have often found it difficult to get responses/feedback from most of my posts. Seems as though there are a lot of "mini groups" that talk back and forth. Am confident that my inputs are worthy, but often get discouraged. Just my 2 cents."
The person who said "don't sweat it" is on the right track. We all got together and I was selected to tell you that it is your deoderant. :-)
119,336
Well I'm certainly not one of them. I think I'm either a psychological amalgam of several people in the sub-conscious mind of a helpdesk worker in Bangalore, or a hologram.
You're Rip van Winkle.
I lurked until I just couldn't stand it anymore. I think it was three days.
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