Newbies: what's something you learned in another Q and A site that is worth bubkes here?

I just like the word bubkes.

I agree with @Jude . . .

I felt as though I belonged when the late, unlamented Jack Adams sent me a salacious, unoriginal and very odd PM.

When I first looked at Q&A sites, about 3 or 4 years ago, I checked out Ask.com and Fluther.
I immediately did not like aspects of each site (I think the “lurve” aspect annoyed me on fluther), so I didn’t join either site.
Much later, a friend recommended Fluther. She has since left, but I have found it to be a second home.
I like the fact people don’t throw “FIRST” on at the beginning of each question.
I love the contributers, which will make or break any Q&A site.
I love that many of the questions don’t need to be ultra secific, or very general. Almost anything can be asked here.
I think I stopped considering myself a noob when people refered to me without directly addressing one of my comments.

Fifth!

SIXTH! Ha! I was gonna say that! :p
I was thinking about it.

Newbie.

I thought it was way better than Yahoo answers, that’s for sure.
This is my first Q&A site. I enjoy the sense of community. I’m still here because err… I want to be.

I hate the evil, scary, fascistic censorship on Fluther. Thanks to all those mean, nasty, vengeful mods, Fluther doesn’t have such insightful questions like “How is babby formed?” or “WhY dOeSnT hE liEk Me <3?” When I came here from Answerbag, I was extremely disappointed to see this kind of shameful censorship here. I think I’ll go back to Answerbag where I can ask “if i get pregnit from my bf nuttering in my virginer hole” in peace.

It gives me an excuse to procrastinate.
@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard Those fucking nazi mods!~

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard “Wer ken ! fnd @ gud pr0xee???” from kids who wanted to surf Facebook from school was also a perennial favorite of mine.”

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard : To answer your question, not as long as that nose is in the way!

@jerv, aw, I never saw that guy. Did you ever see the “bf nuttered in my virginer hole am i pregnit” thread? It was legendary. My answer was “dumbshit” and I got more uprates than for any other answer I ever gave on AB. I kind of feel bad about that…

There are other Q & A sites?

Out of curiosity, I just looked at answerbag for the first time. Saw a lot of dumb stuff really quickly. Some good stuff, but a lot of dumb. Then I remembered hearing of sodahead on here a lot, as a counterpoint to fluther. So I wandered over there. It made everyone on answerbag look like Stephen Hawking.

What is Answerbag?

A Q & A site where apparently everyone ended up drunk.

@queenie Answerbag (or AB) is also where many people here migrated from a couple of years ago for reasons that are detailed at length elsewhere.

@gailcalled @jerv Thanks :)

I’m a Newb… no doubt about that, and won’t think different until one of the exalted masters on the site call me different :)
Actually, I didn’t find this site, my student did. My ethnocentric students assigned a paper comparing regional cultures of the US and one was assigned the Southeast to study. His search led him to one of the discussion threads on Fluther and I was intrigued. I set up an account and was hooked.
I’ve never been interested in Q & A sites- always considered them a waste of time. The law of thermodynamics apply on those sites. Hot, cold mixed, cancels out the difference in temperature, like an average, right? Too many ice cubes there- atoms vibrating way too slow for my taste.
On Fluther, I love the depth of questions, the seriousness of the answers, and the fact I could participate in an actual discussion that really made me think. And about topics I really loved, had strong feelings about, or was interested in. Oooowee!!!
But… I almost left after my 9th answer—I felt accused of being something and I don’t think that person could’ve called me anything worse, if they really knew me. It took me a couple days to let that go- because there were really SWEET people who welcomed me- Blueroses, Cruiser, Augustlan and most of all Jonsblonde—and am thrilled I’ve stayed.
I know enough of social settings, especially textual settings, that I reminded myself that others perceive things differently than I do, so I just kept going, hoping that the person I offended would have a change of heart, and after all, I’m a newb trying to figure out a new community culture.
I’m still here because it IS an awesome site filled with the most fascinating people, thoughts and ideas, is fun, and the jellies actually do listen to each other even if they disagree. Most QA sites are people trying to yell their thoughts the loudest and ugliest—not here and I love it!

@linguaphile Well, we listen to each other, but that doesn’t stop us from still trying to yell the loudest :D

And if you haven’t figured it out we have a sense of humour. Several senses of humour, actually. We may giver serious answers, but some of us add a little silliness to them, and some threads are pure silliness from the start. If we were all serious all the time, I don’t think we could keep so many disparate opinions from causing some ugliness.

@linguaphile I think you are a valued member here. Not that I am exalted. I’m more salted.

Seasoned seazen?!

Crusty.

I am a crouton.

Krusty?

Okay, I am off to take a nap before it declines too much forther!

Night Jerv – you da best.

@linguaphile It’s people like you that keep me around. I’m very happy you decided to stay. =)

Word.

Jerv- I 1,000,000 times lurve the humor here. I work with quite a good number of dimbats (I think most of us do), deal with teenagers (not my own) for most of my waking hours, so this is refreshing! Fluther on…

You can be here for several years and still be a noob.

Most of us are newbies but it doesn’t matter :) we are still cool.

I’m still a newbie. I imagine I will be for a while longer..maybe once I hit 5k or 10k I’ll consider myself not a newbie anymore…

I stumbled on this site googling for something – and joined back in July 2009. But I didn’t really join until this past January when I was trying to find info for a health issue. I was so genuinely touched by the good info people shared and wanted to “pay it forward” a bit too.. (plus I’m a bit of a naturally born “know-it-all” type..sadly).
I discovered there was more to the site..and began to learn personalities and figure out who was who.. and began to be fascinated by the ability to learn so much more about other people’s perspectives..

I’m surprised at the things people will share (destructive behaviors, rants and other forms of what my mom would call: “dirty laundry”)..but hey, we all have a different comfort level for what we’ll put out for public consumption I guess.

I’m a bit…disappointed when I see folks come along and more or less crap on others for no good reason but their own entertainment? or ??..especially new people who just come in and offer nothing positive, but just bring up topics likely to cause dissent or intentionally badger people for their honest opinions (a recent thread between @mrentropy and @gmander is top of mind as I write this..see the thread on Portal2 if you haven’t already..or perhaps it’s already been modded..I hope.)

I’m also surprised at the teenagers on here occasionally. I have a teen daughter and I think I’d be a bit…concerned if she was posting her issues/concerns to the internet and taking strangers’ advice instead of talking to her father and me..

I kvell less than I used to. Fluther has grown past the adorable toddler stage and is now a typical teen-ager. Sometimes I think, “Get your own apartment, please,” and then at other times, “Ah, there’s the glimpse of the lovely adult about to emerge.”

And occasionally, when really exasperated, I think, “Poista sirun olkapäältä..”

@gailcalled – Mikä yllätys! Voit puhua suomea!

Joten voin kiitos google kääntää.

I hate it when you guys do that. :-P

Doen ek dit reg?

“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.”

Isn’t it then?.

Blip dee blap bloop.

I’m still a newb… just broke 1000 last night, woop-de-do !
I never spent any time on another Q&A site because any other I have run across was approximately solid dreck. @linguaphile I think the thermodynamics principles go further most Q&A sites have succumbed completely to entropy.
I ran across fluther from a google search (how to…something) and my presumption, fueled by ample samples, was that that answer would be useless and the rest of the site a chatterbox.
But that answer was useful and the rest of the writing I saw was largely coherent.
People do some thinkin’ here so I stuck around.
Also I like @MissAnthrope jazz riff on the oddball ferrinner language above.

@Michael_Huntington: Uw Nederlandse was verkeerd gespeld. Trouwens, we hadden het in het Fins.

*Afrikaans
FTFY

Ahhhh. Sorry!! My friends in Cape Town would be sorely disappointed in me.

@dabbler Kudos for using dreck to my “bubkes”. My next thread will be entirely in Yiddish.

@geeky_mama Your Dutch was misspelled. Besides, we were in Finnish.

Nu är vi på svenska. Din tur att säga något

@seazen:
Jeg vet ikke noen svensker. Men mannen min er Norweigan født i Tyskland!
私が正直に日本語や英語しか話しません。

I couldn’t read it – ha. It came out gibberish and little squares for me.

@seazen:
First: I don’t know any Swedish..but my husband is a Norweigan born in German.
Second: In all honesty, I only speak English and Japanese.

I haven’t been on any other site besides Answerbag, where I was at for a good while. I joined Wisdm or Wondir or one of those, for like a day.

But truth be telt man…I’ve spent a long time looking up Q&A sites, hoping to find one that might be similar to Fluther. That is, when it comes to how you can have discussions and everything, like we do here. Not because I’m sick and tired of Fluther, not at all. But sometimes it’s slow and I have nothing to do lol.

Anyways. I have seen so many sites. Lots. Haven’t joined any…no wait, I have an account on Blurtit. I don’t remember my username. Something about zombies or chainsaws. Or so I’ll assume.

So I guess it comes back to Answerbag. My experience here as compared to there is that while it was vast and catered to just about anything you wanted to talk about, all anyone ever did was bitch about points. And when people did get serious, it was all drama and debates about god. I love how over here, people take advantage of the freedom given to them when it comes to variety and lack of censorship. People are productive and interesting, not all dramatic and trollish. (not saying I wasn’t dramatic or trollish on AB at times, but I mostly just stayed so I could speak to the few people I made friends with. Kinda cliquey, but we didn’t piss anyone off about it, at least not directly, like some others did)
I made good friends on AB, many of them followed over here. The site wasn’t all bad, and I learned quite a lot there. But it remains that it wasn’t a place meant for anything much deeper than your standard Q&A fare.

So when I was checking out other sites…I must have visited at least like 30…they’re all so similar, and limited and…arriérer, that I almost get physically sick. If there are other places like Fluther, they are few and far between. That’s what I learned lol. Fluther, as a website with many active people on it, will be victim to online assery, but nowhere near as much as other Q&A places.

It also lets me swear.

@geeky_mama Now you tell me – the conversation was just getting interesting and my google.translate skills were improving.

Tired of reading all that crap above ?

Ha me too :)

I just learned that bubkes may be short for kozebubkes, which translates as “goat droppings.”

Some people here milk a joke until the cow is so dehydrated, it falls over dead.

@gailcalled you don’t know how badly I need that laugh right now. thanks =)

@jonsblond: I can think of no nicer compliment.