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What would you tell them? Imagine you have a friend that you want to share SA with and they are going in knowing nothing at all about the site. I was just thinking about what you learn from lurking that isn't in the rules. Like for example: - Emptyquoting is kind of the equivalent of liking a post, you emptyquote when you agree with something or think it's funny. Use in moderation to avoid clogging up threads, especially in the more serious parts of the forums, you may get probed if you do it some places. - Make sure you check at least the last few pages of a thread before replying to an older post to make sure you aren't repeating, and if you do repeat something you can edit your post to add "efb" or edit: gently caress, beaten to apologize (this is kind of in the rules already but it doesn't talk about efb) - Quote is not edit! People make this mistake all the time. If you accidentally quote yourself you should edit your post to say "quote is not edit" or similar so it doesn't look like you are emptyquoting yourself. I'm sure there's much much more I'm not thinking of so have at it!
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lurk more vote 2 dee eight fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Mar 12, 2023 |
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Mar 12, 2023 15:59
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This is goatse and his prophet, giant pig balls. Treat both with respect and adoration
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Mar 12, 2023 16:01
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This site won't let me criticize Catholics, I do not recommend it
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Mar 12, 2023 16:02
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Make an introductory thread using the HOT tag
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Mar 12, 2023 16:13
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You're talking like I'd ever admit paying money to be a member of this community to anyone.
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Mar 12, 2023 16:16
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"uh so yeah please don't associate me with anything else you may happen to see on here"
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Mar 12, 2023 16:16
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I wouldn't.
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Mar 12, 2023 16:18
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I was in a CVS and I was talking to an older gentleman who worked there about his days being in a choir at high school. 4 Of them used to hang out and jam. I said that reminds me of that Billy Joel song. I started to hum "The Longest Time" and he was not familiar and I couldn't think of the name.
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Tite Barnacle posted:You're talking like I'd ever admit paying money to be a member of this community to anyone.
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Mar 12, 2023 16:29
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:Make an introductory thread using the HOT tag
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Mar 12, 2023 16:33
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Given the current state of the forums i'd honestly struggle to even justify re-reging, let alone introduce anyone to it.
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I guess it's a way to experience what posting was like 20 years ago. Before social media was big. As far as I can tell this site is still held together with radium era spaghetti code. Which is a problem, but a different sort of problem to what you get on more modern websites.
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Mar 12, 2023 16:42
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goatse
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Run.
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i’d start them out in the coupons forum for 2-3 years and see how they do
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Mar 12, 2023 18:51
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A lot of these people are loving morons but some of them are pretty funny, go hog wild
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i’d probably send them to a fake sign up page where the $10 goes to my own paypal then i’d mirror the forums by manually copying over everyone’s posts and also copying their posts here to keep up the illusion once they’re hooked i’d occasionally ban them or give them a gross red text and hope they open up their paypal again i’d need to do this for a couple hundred friends and i could quit my day job Bad Purchase fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Mar 12, 2023 |
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Mar 12, 2023 19:01
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You may get probed or banned for saying words that the BBC say on-air but you can also make fun of the owner blowing his brains out because he was a jerk. Welcome to the world of volunteer moderation!
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Mar 12, 2023 19:10
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Volunteer moderators want the BBC
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Mar 12, 2023 19:15
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its kind of like a hip hop message board
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Mar 12, 2023 19:21
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Make all your wildest dreams come true!
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Mar 12, 2023 20:11
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im gay You think thats funny? What are your opinions on goku?
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Mar 12, 2023 20:17
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Don't look at me. Don't quote my posts. Don't even think about adding me to your friend's list. Don't PM me (don't get me platinum so you can PM me either). Don't talk to other posters about me. Don't laugh at stuff I post. Don't be using smilies or emojis at me. Don't link to my account. Don't even look at my avatar.
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Mar 12, 2023 20:22
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It's like a church, but they only ask you for money once, and you're not encouraged to show up regularly.
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i'd tell them it's kind of a suicide cult that all the followers chickened out on
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Bad Purchase posted:friends An otherwise perfect crime
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Mar 12, 2023 22:37
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I did introduce a few friends to SA and my preface was essentially that the forums under 'Main" are mostly just shitposting and some discussion, but all the other forums have genuinely good discussion. Without that, people go straight to GBS, click some thread, read the first three pages of shitposts, and think that that's all this offers.
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It’s useful because there’s a huge range of people and experiences here, but don’t take their opinions on anything seriously and they think they are much funnier than they really are.
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Mar 12, 2023 23:04
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ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD posted:im gay I have been following you for years.
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It's like other social media except it doesn't have a userbase and it's run off 20 year old web forum software and yeah you have to pay to use basic features why do you ask where are you going
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there's a place you can post only if it's friday
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There are so many reasons not to do that. One of them being that I'd have to admit that I post here.
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I’d preface it with “please do not be worried”
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I would piledrive them into the computer monitor, OP
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The less people IRL who know I post here the better. My wife knows, but I haven't shared my username and she wouldn't care to browse SA. I met a kid when I was 20 who had an account but we also never shared our usernames, he was weirdly secretive in a way I guess I didn't understand until now. There are a handful of SA emojis on my work slack, like  , but I'm very corporate and not cool so I'll never tell anyone why I'm fond of that one.
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“Do you have stairs in your house?!” “What? Uh, yes?” “Wrong answer bitch  HADOUKEN HADOUKEN HADOUKEN!!!!!!”
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Smugworth posted:The less people IRL who know I post here the better. My wife knows, but I haven't shared my username and she wouldn't care to browse SA. I met a kid when I was 20 who had an account but we also never shared our usernames, he was weirdly secretive in a way I guess I didn't understand until now. I bet the mystery goon was bigpeeler
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"i like stairs" is a secret password on there
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