The a-m-v.org awkward newbie phase

[Ileia]

We were all the "awkward newbie" at one point. Anyone have any funny stories about when you first joined here? What embarrassing thing did you do?



For me, I didn't know how most of the internet worked. I got a computer so that I could make AMVs and a-m-v.org was my first experience with message boards of any sort. I scrolled to the bottom, saw users online, saw the private message option, and assumed it worked like a chatroom. So, I uh... sent PMs to a whole bunch of users with messages like "MY FAVORITE ANIME IS INUYASHA, WHAT'S YOURS?!" I recall only getting one response, from Willow, who was nice enough but clearly amused by it.

[Cannonaire]

My third day on a-m-v.org I strongly implied that Mister Hatt was a troll.
It's pretty funny in retrospect because of all the help he's given me.

[Castor Troy]

I originally signed up for this site (hence my early reg date) trying to look for hosting when I was getting kicked off my server. My profile originally said "Boo-urns".

Luckily, that happened 2 years later.

My string of embarrassing moments came much later after that...

[JaddziaDax]

I remember using the journals as chat rooms. >.>
Even while I was IMing the same people.

[Kitsuner]

I avoided the forums for two years when I first joined the org, because I thought it was a chat room and was afraid of getting Internet Predatored.

[Radical_Yue]

I was incredibly full of derp. Like, so much derp it's painful to look at my first posts.

Beyond Neopets, I had never been on a forum before so I was totally lost about where to post and what to post. I would excuse my moronic answers with hyperactive excuses about eating lots of brownies and sugar. I posted a couple times asking for technical help but all of the answers I received went *whoooooosh* over my head so I wasted a bunch of people's time. >>

My shining moment was went I started "The Loser Awards" which was a contest for people that edit with WMM. Scintilla gave me a hard time about the fact that you can make good videos with WMM. Sadly, I was too retarded to make it clear that the whole 'loser' aspect was just a jab at whole "WMM is the worst EVAR" stigma. Then I felt sad about making Scintilla mad at me.

Also, the contest went nowhere

While the hyperactive retard in me was filtered out at a pretty decent rate, I think I managed to figure out how the forums work pretty quickly and that helped BIG TIME.


Also, I'm still retarded, just not hyperactive retarded. It's a different kind of retard.

[Pwolf]

Read and weep: viewtopic.php?p=17438

[Radical_Yue]

Read and weep: viewtopic.php?p=17438

The King wins.

[Kristyrat]

I think I should have avoided the forums in the beginning, at least until I got the whole "social interaction with people over the internet" thing down. I was pretty impatient and demanding

[Castor Troy]

Read and weep: viewtopic.php?p=17438

zomg, I wonder what happened to klinky!

[AceD]

I originally signed up for this site (hence my early reg date) trying to look for hosting when I was getting kicked off my server. My profile originally said "Boo-urns".

Luckily, that happened 2 years later.

My string of embarrassing moments came much later after that...

I made my account, because your server might of being going down...that's why my signup is so early as well. Well my sign up is probably when your server finally did go in fact.

[MycathatesyouAMV]

Ugh...

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=81799

Just about any of my early posts

[lloyd9988]

I think I should have avoided the forums in the beginning, at least until I got the whole "social interaction with people over the internet" thing down. I was pretty impatient and demanding

[ZephyrStar]

I think for the most part I avoided newbing it up on *this* forum, but there are others that I can certainly say I am embarrassed by. The megatokyo forum comes to mind >_>

When I joined this forum I ignored the forum part and lurked in the IRC for years before I ever posted, and I apparently had forgotten my "ZephyrStar" login, so I went by "hoshinokaze" for a couple of years until I bugged the mods enough (sorry) for them to unlock and give me back my old login. Even though two logins are not allowed. (to be fair, I never used the 2nd one after that).

Then Koop started calling me hoshinolamenobody.

I'm sure there are some fairly embarrassing IRC logs around...

[Koopiskeva]

First couple posts.
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=901&p=11551#p11551
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1097&p=13330#p13330

Still newbie and awkward here o: