Still, when I was new, I was very wary of putting myself front ‘n center, so to speak. I saw how newbies were treated. LOL I’m not saying it’s bad, just surprised is all and actually impressed with this person’s hootz-pah (sp?). :)
I sort of jumped into it, but carefully...that’s why I have posted a total of 532 threads and 33,976 replies.
A lot of how one acts as a newbie depends on how they stumbled across FR and what is going on at the time, my first two posts are on my profile page and it was during the thick of the Bush-Gore recounts. Starting during a major event going on tends to bring out the passion in many Freepers...