Great thread, WhiteDaisy!
I just looked and wow, I joined TODAY in 2003.
But I have been an internet nerd since around 1993. That's a l-o-n-g time in internet years. Back then, you'd think nothing of posting your real, full e-mail address on a forum. As a result, I'm still getting spam from 18-year-old posts. Not cool.
As much as people complain about hearing the same old questions and why don't new posters read first, that's the way it is when you have 16- and 17-year-old kids posting. Remember how you were at that age? Your parents knew nothing, everything was different, they just don't know how it is now? (Yes, you. You know you did it, too!
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I, too, think people here have gotten more snarky. That's why I like the stickied threads. You can post a link and refer a newbie there, without things developing into a snarkfest and scaring the poor baby away.
