A question for people who have recently discovered this site.
Have you been welcomed and made to feel that you want to stay around? Has this site provided useful information, or helped you solve a problem?
Oops. Two questions. Oh well.
Also, take a look at this: forumosa.com/3/viewtopic.php?t=18625
Where’s the gay forum? Y’all aint got no love for the queers? Shame.
Kobin wrote:
Last year there was, for a time, quite an active orgy of posts from the gay team. The idea of such a forum was floated but there was not enough interest and many posters felt that the forumosan community should not be segregated.
There are a lot of gay threads which you may enjoy reading. Just do a search using some of the following keywords: gay, lesbian, “Sex in the City”, gerbil, Corona,
Good luck.
He was kidding about the Corona, but damn, it was funny.
Corona is teh ghey!
(He wasn’t kidding about the gerbils though).
At first I came to see how other people were handling Taiwan; now I come to get advice e.g. is this guy cracking onto me or not, and also for the entertainment value. I discovered it somehow when I went through a homesick and depressed phase and turned into an internet addict for a while. I didn’t really think about feeling welcomed or not because I didn’t notice any cliquey-ness to begin with but then again I never do in real life either.
How come newbies get picked on anyway? I always thought that the anonymous nature of internet forums meant that all that mattered was the content of your posts rather than who you are. That’s my dream shattered! 
[quote=“gretel”]
How come newbies get picked on anyway? [/quote]
I only want to pick on fred smith.
[quote=“smerf”][quote=“gretel”]
How come newbies get picked on anyway? [/quote]
I only want to pick on fred smith.[/quote]
um because they ask dumb questions? 
…my classic newbie story is the guy who came thru the hostel door once straight from the airport and his 1st line was “hi, i hear it’s real easy to get girlfriends here…is that true?”
ok ok i promise to be nice to newbies from now on except on thursdays which shall be ordained “flame a newbie day”
Is it?*
*Sleazy attempt by immature smerf to sidetrack thread to T&A discussion. 
Hmmm, while we are all anonymous posters in cyberspace on the surface, it fact the picture is a bit more complex.
Many of the active old posters have met and know each other. While this is getting better, as more and more new posters are joining, you sometimes get a bit of an “old boys club” feeling here. Same posters, same topics.
Therefore, I would avoid to pick on any nfew posters, who first lurked a bit and found out what not to post here if they want to regeive a nice welcome.
I’ve been checking out he board for a couple of months now, and I think everyone’s hilarious (acid_dropper is a little frightening, though) - it’s a great board and I’ve learned quite a bit.
I think a disturbing fact for a newbie is to get his post moved around, sometimes I see posts that get moved around with no comment, and I have real difficulties to find them again (never happened to me, just observed it several times)
A good approach would be to post a note first and move the thread few days later or something. Not sure how much it scares the newbies from posting again.
Btw. Can I finally stop being a newbie? I post a lot (in monkey dimensions) and my post counter still runs backwards! i.e. …when the old messages get archived. Do I really need to post a “me too” 6 times a day to become l33t?