Hey Noob here!
 

Hi, I was just browsing your picture archives and thought I'd join your site.

Yay!

Great to be here!

(edited because I didn't want you guys to think I was spamming the site...sorry)

Nic, you wanna address this one?

I don't know UT, Perth has that piece of ash leaning against his bedroom wall, maybe its time for him to wield it.

its under my bed, actually. and im at work. i can probably get ahold of something to deliver rich, chunky voltage, however.

~james

Wait...I don't get it, did I do something wrong? :(

Long-term studies have shown that 95% of users who post a promotional link on the first post are spammers or other types of losers.

But that's cool! All you need to do to redeem yourself is to post a thoughtful reply to a thread other than this one.

^ And you did! Even before I finished composing my message.

Welcome to the Cellar, friend.

I posted in the Entertainment thread--sorry, I didn't mean to post the link like I was spamming. My apologies, I just thought that since the some of the forums on your sites were sort of similar, you'd enjoy looking at there too.

My apologies once again.

Let that be a lesson .. to me. :blush:

XAB, I see you have met Nic the Neck, our resident hitman.

Welcome aboard.

Noobs
 

To promote a similar forum site in your first post is like showing up uninvited to a party at a neighbor's house and inviting all his guests over to your place for a similar good time.

There's nothing wrong with letting us all in on another good site, but the recommendation has more value once we know who's giving it and if they are in any way affiliated with the site.

If one is affiliated with the site, there's nothing wrong with including a link as your homepage in your user profile. The folks around here will usually check out the homepages of noobs who have something interesting to say in the threads.

[disclaimer: my homepage link is just a joke] :p

If you have a really, really, cool homepage and are bold as brass you could even put a link to your own website in your sig. But it better be worthwhile or there might be some criticism. If it's very well done, there will be much respect and admiration. :)

Roger that, sir.

:) As a fellow N00b, I'm taking notes.

I guess it's a good thing I don't have a website to promote.

Hi everyone!

This isn't a place to take notes ... it's a place to make notes. ;)

Oh ... hi.

I'm new here, too. :)

While two people will take the opposing position, resulting in 14 pages of slowly degerating arguement, counterarguement with a gradually increasing level of personal jibes resulting in a verbal shitstorm with the political, cultural and artistic value of a plastic bucket.

So i've heard.

It's hard being a newbie. I didn't feel too out of place when I first came here, b/c UT had just started the new version, and there were few posts to browse through. But when you come into an established community, it can be intimidating.

The Cellar, for the most part, is incredibly easy to get into. Why?

--The links at the bottom of every page. UT breaks it down real nice: What is the Cellar, its history, and the privacy policy.

--No registration necessary. You like to read, but don't feel a desire to post? Cool. I generally don't subscribe to a vBulletin joint unless it allows you to browse around. (Though I did register with El Saano...*shrugs*)

--Sure, there are plenty of inside jokes to go around...but it doesn't really take long to become an insider, IMO. A noobian should be able to come here to the Cellar, read a little, start posting, and feel like a member of our dysfunctional family.

And the most helpful tip I can give a noobian: Ask questions. Don't assume shit and post something that is going to make you look like a crackhead later. (For example, this thread)

I have to say that was one of the few old threads I've read that much of, I think I got all the way to page 5 before I lost interest in the argument.

Ah. Wow. That was a fun day. :)

<3

Ummm...what is that?

A heart.

*enlightened*

It took me forever to figure out what "!=" meant too.

Programming parlance. "Is not equal to."

Well yeah, I figured that out finally last week. :)

:)

Hello!

Crap! Late again!

=D

Hello T.O. !!!!

Thanks.

Is this site always this slow? :(

Well... it's not a chat room, if that's what you mean.

I believe you'll find that, around here, the quantity and timeliness of the responses you receive will be proportionally inverse to the insipidity of your original post.

Slow as compared to...?

The busiest time on the Cellar tends to be between 7am and 7pm Eastern Time M-F. On weekends, you can hear the crickets. :)

Haha, thanks sycamore. I am just used to their being constant posting like Saano. It just seems like there's a lot of members, and not a lot of constant posting. Thanks for letting me know.

Sorry. I didn't mean to offend anyone. (Hubris Boy) Jeez.

Huh?

Did I sound offended? I didn't mean to. That's not what I sound like when I'm offended.

This is what I sound like when I'm offended.

Chirp, chirp.

Cellar welcomes newest member, Logan
 

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com...ch_vash104.jpg

We don't always make this big a deal of new members!