Do you remember being a newbie?

i'm always a newbie somewhere. although not so much lately.

well i've only lived in nevada (this time) a little over a year.

(i also lived in reno for a couple of years in the early 70s. now i live in sparks, since a year previous to last november)

 

im going to have to disagree with that..

however some want to play together like family, others are the dysfunctional part the family that dont want to join in the reindeer games. citing privacy.

 

or sometimes boredom with humans

 

When I first joined my focus was in the psychedelics forums and having a few decades of experience in that area, I was not met with much "newbie bashing", actually I'm more of the "basher"

I think the majority of "newbies" that don't last long are the ones who join HF thinking it's going to be some idealistic sanctuary of peace and love straight out of 1968.

Problem is most of those folks were not even so much as a twinkle in their grandpa's eye at that time and don't realize that the "hippie culture" is just another microcosm of the world with all the hero's and assholes encountered in everyday life and 1968 wasn't all that wonderful.

I see a lot of romanticized notions of "hippiedom" get dashed on the rocks here at HF.

 

As I recall, I discovered the forums only a day or two after I got my first internet connection, so it was all new to me then. Can't say I've ever felt any trepidation about posting on here, right from the start I realized that there are enough people on here you can get along with and ignore the trolls.
There are one or two posters from years ago I miss a bit since they left, but generally it's all good.

 

I think the situation now is a hell of a lot better than it was when I joined.

 

I joined for drug info. I got some pretty good info and also a few bashings for smoking weed near the date of a pee test

I also used to think Glen was like 25 lol

 

I joined in 2011, but quickly lost interest, then came back and started actively posting last june....i had maybe 10 posts until I came back. This was my second forum. I was a legend on ravelinks from 2006 until around 2011. I met almost every single member from the colorado forum irl. I actually found out about hf from codmouse (whom I originally knew from ravelinks) after we had partied together a couple times.

 

Yeah, I suppose I was a "noob" 3 times.
1st time, I prob only posted about 50 or so times. And found one really cool friend from America. It was really fun to chat to someone completely different from what I'd normally meet - a real "hippy", and much more. And its always really fun to chat to them today, all these years later.

2nd time, I had a new user name, and went on to become a regular for a year or so. Again, this time I became friendly with someone new, altho haven't exactly chatted alot for many years now.

3rd time, was after a 4 yr break ie just over a year ago. I made a wonderful new friend from the other side of the world, a real kindred spirit.

I go thro phases of being active, neutral and completely absent from the forums. Sometimes, I feel it can be a way to waste time. Then I think of the big, suprise benefits of it, which makes it all worthwhile.

 

NOOB NOOB NOOB I will be one forever.....lol

I join forums tomake friends...forever friends....

 

When I first joined it seemed like one big giant crazy online party,where you could talk politics and philosophy in the kitchen and then chill on a couch and smoke weed and listen to a wide selection of good music in the lounge.It still feels like that at the best of times.People may notice that I am very different from time to time,but that's just who I am.

 

There aren't really any good political discussions anymore except between the same 3 or 4 people and those are always predictable. I miss the political talk even though I'm sick of politics and I'm sure everyone else is too.

When I joined I didn't really have any desire to sit around and shoot the shit, I wanted debate and meaningful conversation. Now I pretty much exclusively use this site to shoot the shit and pass the time

 

I agree Meliai.I'm going more that way too.

 

i am the least predictable person when it comes to talking politics and i used to love talking politics...but something happened along the way, maybe its like you say. everybody else is pretty predictable.

 

I remember and hopefully that account is looooong forgotten.
Things were a helluva lot meaner back in those days.

 

truth is we are a bit more lenient to supporter accounts

at least i am...im sure the rest are too but wont admit it


im just saying that because i know you had a bunch

 

Definitely not.

 

None of my bans had anything to do with anyone being mean, though. There were all random, except the one. The shame of my first account was how must posting in L&S I did.

There were a lot of super-douches back in the day. Good chunk of them with Skip in the Xtian forum. And the dread-forum used to be legendarily douchey.

 

I do remember that!

 

not that I had any hand in that.... *shifty eyes*