As one of the recent new members, I feel like I should be super careful now what I submit to not eventually scrape off the flair of the veterans here and get scolded by them :/

There was a time, call it '92 to 2000, when it was considered the newbiest, most assholish thing in the world to join a new forum and start posting without lurking for a month or more first. Then AOL happened and the world became HEY GUISE WATS NEW HERE.

Diaspora (RIP) gave everyone a #newhere tag when they started up their accounts. You followed it until you figured out how to unfollow it. Note that I don't blame the new blood for flooding the fuck out of #askhubski because there's no search, features were curtailed and you had no idea what the hell else to do. But I think it's an important lesson for insomniasexx and thenewgreen and mk and the rest of the posse that I'm forgetting that Hubski needs a failSAFE mode, not a failFRIVOLOUS mode.

You should have been put in a nice, friendly, nerfed-out, training-wheels place where you can explore, poke around, figure shit out and NOT upset what was already here.