I for one will always be a noob at heart, because i suck at everything

You can't automatically assume that someone on a low level is a n00b because i think it should be judged on their knowledge of Newgrounds. A few users that i have encountered with a level lower than 4 have really answered some queries in the forums intelligently and persuaded me to think that they're not a n00b.

At 1/22/03 03:50 PM, leeboy105 wrote:

A few users that i have encountered with a level lower than 4 have really answered some queries in the forums intelligently and persuaded me to think that they're not a n00b.

Right on leeboy105. I generally associate n00bs with assholes. If someone frequently posts spam, insulting messages, porn etc., then I consider them a n00b, regardless of level. You don't normally get this type of attitude from high level users.

This is copied from my other reply in other topic. It basically explains what I think newbies mean.

Newbies, by definition, means someone new to something. However, many times I have seen this meaning being altered. In games, newbies now mean "unskilled". The reason why they think like that is if they are new, then they haven't played for long enough and therefore unskilled. That's why new term, 1337 (elite) also went out, meaning "skilled". That's why in games you can see people calling "Yea, I beat you, I'm so 1337!" and things like that. It has degraded so that 1337 is a praise and newbie (n00b) became an insult.

Same with NG, although in NG the meaning has altered even more. People generally call other people n00bs if they say stupid comments. The reason is that when they are newbie, they don't know a lot of things, so they either ask stupid questions or make stupid comments. So it really has nothing to do with levels, because the meaning has altered. It is now more of an insult to people who are acting idiotic.