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I do believe the new toolbar is a load of crap. Especially with all the pretteh pictures. I can just see it freezing my interwebs. [slow internet ftw~] Although it seems enticing enough, what with their claims that it will be more "user friendly" this way, so I suppose we'll just have to wait that out and see what happens. I am a little annoyed that they can't seem to stick with one color scheem either, but maybe that's just me.

However, when it comes to "nOObs", well...
It is true that more and more people are joining everyday, as in newbs. But for me to say "They're are too many nOObs now" would be crap, because I hardly frequent the forums unless I'm looking for some casual RPing. Which...I haven't found in a while, so sad. lol
Well, I dunno about that. Is there really more nOObishness in the forums these days? o__0?

{Clearing throat loudly} Careful--I'm a newbie (note the spelling), and I don't act like a "noob".

As for better? Which is better: an old guard Gaian who acts like an arrogant p***k, or a newbie like me who doesn't constantly beg for gold (I've asked for donations a couple of times, but I did so politely, and with the assumption that it's not likely that anyone's just going to hand me 10K gold out of the goodness of their heart), who doesn't use L33T or txt abbr's every other word, and who actually bothers to RTFM (not that there's any "manual" worth the term here!)?

I'm not attacking you, BTW; I'm attacking stupidity in general. I don't care for elitist bullshit any more than I care for rookie-puke "noobishness". Just because someone's new does not give them an excuse to act like a retarded three-year-old, demanding handouts and freebies, throwing temper tantrums when they don't get them, and generally being an a**. OTOH, you were once a newbie like me--obviously, you survived the experience, and now are an old hand at Gaia--so have a little compassion for rookies like me, please!

You really want to get rid of "noobs"? Teach them how to act like they have brains! The ones that don't take the hint, by all means boot the bastards! Let MolesterSpace or CraigsList deal with them instead of us. But the ones who learn that being new doesn't mean you have a license to act like a twit are obviously worth keeping and training into old guard like you.

Believe me, I hate "noobs" just as much as you, and not only for the same reasons, but also because they make newbies like me look bad too! But please don't lump all of us together in the same category simply because we're all new.