AIBU to like MSE's message?

[Mitmoo]

Found on MSE Forums

"Newbie Alert

MSE requests you give newbies a chance - please be especially nice."

Should we adopt that here? Some seem to get their sick kicks in scaring newbies off by being particularly nasty, shouldn't posters be nice to newbies?

I rememeber the thread with the fecked up (ASDA I think it was) grocery order.

MSE flayed her alive.

MNers were looking for solutions and offering advice and support.

I know where I'd rather be!

Oooooh. "simply vaile.."

I like that, Bupcakes

Gimme, gimme, gimme (?)

Yes. The ASDA thread. How on earth could MSE flay her alive? She was positively desperate. MSE prats.

You can have it, caramel.

See? Community spirit alive and well on MN.

is the 'newbie alert' thing tagged to your posts then?

fuck's sake, as if there isn't enough labelling and judging in this life, someone wants to add more?

Most of the MSE posts were posters looking down thier noses at the "newbie" and snorting about how she could have been so thick as to not know about ring fencing funds.

And they all knew she was a newbie because it says so next to every single post on MSE.

There's no way of telling here unless you start searching for previous posts

I remember that thread too... MSE were horrendous to her for not knowing the money taking practices of the supermarket. MNers were asking her she was and saying they could help with essentials bread, milk, nappies etc...

I name change frequently but I'm not popular so I imagine people think I'm a newbie frequently and I've never been rude to, swore at, accused of being a troll etc...

Maybe Mitmoo if you feel badly treated you need to look at your own style of posting, it might become clear why you get some of the responses you do!

It's weird really. I know that when I started using MN I just sort of..got on with it, and I've never had a problem here.

I wonder why that is.

i'm off to bully newbies

make yourselves known, bitchez

On another site I know, you register and then you can't post until the following Tuesday (known as "newbie Tuesday") - this is supposed to give you a bit of a chance to lurk and see the lay of the land before you dive right in and say something which is going to offend 99% of posters. I would guess that having it on a specific day gives the grumpiest of the oldies the chance to avoid the onslaught

It's because you're scary, Shirley. Really scary. Who would mess with you? WHO?

Oh, I have to go out now. So no fair
Someone bully some newbies for me? I'll do yours next week.

B3TA! BB. I got fucking FUHLAAAAMED on there a few years ago. Because I asked it anyone had a picture of Derek off Coronation Street's "paperclip car".

That whole sentence makes sense to me.

Shirley

I did get on the front page of QOTW a couple of times though.

ah B3TA - I haven't been over there for ages.

Awww, that's how to spot a 'newbie' - they blush when they swear

I'm a born again newbie - be speshally nice to me

cunt see

Nobody has been nasty to me, and I'm new.

Oh yeah Red2011, yeah?