I'm sure all of us had a made a few mistakes when we first joined the boards. For some of us we have to think WAY back.  ;D ;D

For me, my first mistake was my very first post-I started a thread looking for the name/lyrics of a song-but I posted it in the newbie section instead of the looking for lyrics section. (It was moved.)  Also, when I responded to whomever it was who answered my question-I don't know if I was having computer problems at that moment or what but I ended up posting my response twice.  :-[  I didn't know there was a little button called "Edit".  ::)

What mistakes did you make?



Cat

I would answer questions without reading prior post
and I was often stuck in the qoute box.

I didn't see the new members posting section, and I posted one in the Playful Penguin Place.









Got yelled at for it, too  ;D

My only mistake was that I didn't join inthe00s sooner :)

Early as a newbie, I made the mistake of posting topics that already existed.  I also often got stuck in a quote box. 

I think my first post for "What Song Are You Listening to"? instead of just putting the title and the band, I wrote a whole paragraph. I've put the wrong song in the wrong decade, played link/chain games incorrectly, misspelled artists, (I had the grammar-spelling police after me jeff  ;) ) all pretty standard basic humiliating stuff for a newbie, but the sad thing is I could still make those mistakes.  ;D

That reminds me that when I was a newb, often I'd mistakenly post incorrectly in one of the PBG threads  :-[

Jeff was always there to tell me of my wring doings  ;)

I made the mistake of entering the Politics section.  :-[

I made the mistake of entering the Politics section.  :-[


It's brutal in there.  I did the same as a newb  :-[

I made the mistake of entering the Politics section.  :-[
It looks like a COMBAT zone in there  >:(

I made the mistake of entering the Politics section.  :-[



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You guys are a bunch of wimps.  ;D ;D ;D




Cat




I--uh..



Add me to the list of wimps, too :-[

I made the mistake of entering the Politics section.  :-[


Same here.  Although I'll still occasionally go in there, just to see what's happenin'.  And if I'm really feelin' brave, I'll post.  ;D

You guys are a bunch of wimps.  ;D ;D ;D




Cat
I'm not ashamed. I can barely think a single whole thought from all the chemical warfare my brain went thru in the 70's.  ;D

Post a song I was listening into the wrong decade.  ;D

Capitalized the first letter of nally's name :D

Guest  07:33:15 PM Printing the topic "What Mistakes Did You Make as a Newbie?".


Not cool.

printing?  what in the heck for?

printing?  what in the heck for?
...maybe he/she/toaster is wanting to join, but wants to make sure he/she/oven doesn't make the same mistakes as us?  ::)

Capitalized the first letter of nally's name :D


i mADE tHAT mISTAKE tOO  :D

Uh oh, if that's taboo, then add me to the list...

I also went to the politics section. I still read there sometimes, but I'm not so sure posting is the way to go.

As I'm hardly a seasoned member yet, I'm sure I can come back and report as I goof...



Go ahead, post in the political section. We won't bite.......hard.  ;D ;D ;D




Cat

Made Beth mad.  ;D

I don't recall any mistakes, except maybe not posting in the newbie thread.

Go ahead, post in the political section. We won't bite.......hard.  ;D ;D ;D




Cat


I am like a bug in the politics section.  I go in there and I get squashed ;D

well...let's see...


I made a few errors as to when songs came out (posting them in the wrong music era)
made some spelling errors before I knew of our great spell checker

Entered the AmIRight Section, expressed odd sense of humor, didn't use smiley, defended self.

For the most part I'm familar with message boards and forums in general (I've been doing it since '98 or so), but I didn't get familar with the "feel" of it here for a few months.

I was "conditioned" on a couple other boards to stay on topic in a given thread. Now I know tangents are cool in most threads (as long as they're in control, etc). :)

I made some mistakes on the game boards (especially with the chain one - that damn thread still screws me up from time to time, lol), maybe posting something with typos and/or not getting jokes until much later, learning how to use the quote box thingy. trying to figure out what "^" or "^^" was, trying to understand people who were always changing their names, stumbling into the politics boards, etc.

This wasn't really a mistake, but when I was a newbie here, I didn't know you were allowed more than 1 post per day in a Board Games thread.  A messageboard I once belonged to doesn't allow that

I posted a song in the wrong decade (and was corrected promptly)

Although I do have to say that the "What song are you listening to" in the 80's section didn't say What 80's song are you listening to until recently... so I didn't know it had to be 80's.


And I accused Apricot of being Alyssa. :-[

I posted a song in the wrong decade (and was corrected promptly)

Although I do have to say that the "What song are you listening to" in the 80's section didn't say What 80's song are you listening to until recently... so I didn't know it had to be 80's.





I made that same mistake and I was corrected by a  *gasp* GUEST!! :o

The only real mistake I made, I think, was trying to get back on topic. :-[







And yeah, I got yelled at for that.

For some of us we have to think WAY back.  ;D ;D

Cat


Like me... ;D

Honestly, I can't recall any mistakes I made when I came here back in 1999...

The board had a very different appearance and there weren't nearly as many features as there are now...

I made that same mistake and I was corrected by a  *gasp* GUEST!! :o
that's just wrong  ;D

that's just wrong  ;D



I know...I thought so too. They were all mean and stuff....I gave them a smart-mouthed answer back. LOL! ;D :D

I know...I thought so too. They were all mean and stuff....I gave them a smart-mouthed answer back. LOL! ;D :D


was that Mr. Critic and Excuse me?  If it was them, you weren't even a newbie!! ;D

was that Mr. Critic and Excuse me?  If it was them, you weren't even a newbie!! ;D



I can't remember the name they went under....I don't think it was one of them....but it was some jerk in one of the "what song are you listening to now" threads....they got all smart-mouthed with me, so I gave it right back! ;)

I made that same mistake and I was corrected by a  *gasp* GUEST!! :o



It could have been a board member who posted as a guest because he/she didn't want to come off as a "know-it-all" or something like that.  ::)

There was a time when Chucky disabled the function that allows guests to post because of a lot of spammers-and members who were posting nasty stuff as a guest.



Cat

I kept quoting too much

I was a prick.

Making too many threads

The only real mistake I made, I think, was trying to get back on topic. :-[

And yeah, I got yelled at for that.


;D I remember that... it wasn't that you were telling them to get on topic, but the way it was said, wasn't it?

Either way, it's past now.

I started at the very bottom - AmIRight

You guys are a bunch of wimps.  ;D ;D ;D




Cat


Sho' Nuff!  ;D

I said "Subway"  ::)

Sometimes I post something wrong in the PBG, for which I'm usually corrected.

Ah yes, the PBG is an ass for a newbie. I've had my fair share of slip ups in there.  ::)

I thought "Child Boards" were for children (seriously!)  :o

I forgot where to post

Not knowing about the PM system until I was here for at least 4 or 5 months, same way on livenirvana.

:-[ :o :-\\

Well honestly, I still feel like a newbie..  but some of the mistakes that were  brought to my attention were  posting out of sequence on an a-z thread or chain.  Posting too many at once without taking turns.. ( I didn't know at the time about taking turns),  and getting caught in the quote box. I am still learning the ropes on the entire site.. but I do enjoy it  very much.

It could have been a board member who posted as a guest because he/she didn't want to come off as a "know-it-all" or something like that.  ::)

There was a time when Chucky disabled the function that allows guests to post because of a lot of spammers-and members who were posting nasty stuff as a guest.



Cat





I remember that! back when I first joined!

One of the mistakes I made as a newbie was not doing a search before starting a poll on a music artist.  I did a few of those in the 70's section, on artists so long forgottem i didn't think polls already existed on them