Is there anything you would like to share with all of the new Flutherites?

At what point is a newbie not a newbie?

A month I’d say

@Sueanne_Tremendous I’d say about a week. There are still people coming in though.

@Sueanne_Tremendous it took me a couple of months before I felt like I wasn’t a newb

Let me introduce you all to @janets.

click here

Thanks Clair for the welcome!

the most famous discussion here was <strong>“the cake guy question”</strong>

I would like to be the first to offer a formal greeting to our guests.

Welcome to fluther!
Please, help yourself to some hors d’oeuvres in the lobby. Your hostess will be here to show you to your rooms shortly. If there is anything we can do to further accommodate you, don’t hesitate to ask. We value your contributions and want you to feel as much at home as possible. We hope you enjoy your stay!

@holden: Thanks for the warm welcome. Hate to show my ignorance right off the bat but…

…what’s a jelly?

@flameboi – Oooo, the cake guy thread… you should link it! Epic win!

@Shatzee You’re most welcome.

Ok, here we go!
The Cake Stalker
Fluther is a cover up for the CIA
and I won’t hog the rest..

a jelly is part of our fluther…a group of jellyfish.

I would tell them to check out the page that tells you how to make your text look cool (this one). At first I felt quite left out because I didn’t know how to do all that.

@Clair why were all those responses in the CIA one removed? That was lol’tastic.

Good grammar is everything.

@jmah janets! HAHAHHA OMG. <3<3<3

link Best question ever by my friend WTF. It’s a real marriage proposal on Fluther and we got to watch it unfold.

@SABOTEUR it’s what we call ourselves!

And Andrew bought lol4rl.com as seen here
What an investment!

And haiku’s
And everyone poops
Talk about everyone getting to know each other! Sheesh!

@SABOTEUR Jelly comes from Jellyfish. Dr. J (up top with the glasses) is our guy.

Well, I was going to mention my favorite all time question, janets frizzer. But since it’s already here, my second favorite is “How many Flutherers does it take to change a lightbulb?” and my third favorite, “Why would a candle refuse to light?”. Alas, I have not yet figured out how to post links with my iPhone. If someone would be so kind as to do that for me I would be most grateful!

Quality, in both Q&A is much more highly valued than in our former home. We should forget about quantity. We also have to learn to stay “on topic” in the threads. Our previous terminology needs conversion to Jelly-speak.

@saboteur

As time goes by you will increasingly become more aware of all the little touches relating to the main theme and all things oceany and seagoing.

There are different, sometimes rather esoteric, names for various groups of animals and other living things. A group of Larks is known as an Exhaltation. A group of crows is a murder. No kidding.

A group of jellyfish is a Fluther and individual members are referred to as jellies.

Clair,

Thank you for your question and for the welcome.

Hope that I can enjoy it. If only I could ask more questions? :>)

Regards

BTW. There is also a pretty decent but little known movie starring Cuba Gooding, Jr. called “A Murder of Crows”

I love plays upon words like that.

@keithold GA ;-)

@saboteur,....yeah you’re a jelly.

The elaboration in the question mentions Darwin, stalking and, possibly, kittens.

This place isn’t normal.

I like it.

@stranger_in_a_strange_land . People here keep referring to “the thread.” I haven’t seen what I call a thread. When you respond to answers it just goes to the bottom so the whole thing seems kind of convoluted. Am I missing something here?

im a new flutherite – feel free to share :)

I’m really enjoying the moderation system here. Because of it, I’m assuming, most of the questions here are very thoughtful and intelligent. I haven’t seen one question about what’s going to happen in 2012 yet, and that makes me very, very happy. I think the collective IQ of fluther is much higher than AB’s when AB started going to hell. Thanks for having me, guys.

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard pleased to have you.

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard We’ve got 2012 for you.

You are right though. Most of the questions here are very thoughtful and intelligent. =)

Yikes, @jonsblond, spoke too soon! :-D

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard You got that right. I haven’t seen a single lame, meaningless question yet. I WILL miss being a retard while answering, but making one’s brain work every now and then is a lot more rewarding in the end.

@toomuchcoffee911 @jmah @Buttonstc @jbfletcherfan:

Thanks for the clarification.
Been called a lot of things, but never a jelly…

(“Toto…I don’t think we’re in Kansas.”)

Hallo there!!!!! (”,)

Well, I would like to recommend that all of the ABused victims stop looking back, move on, and assimilate.

- Forget the old AB points, and don’t try to use the Lurve system the same way
– Get used to asking fewer questions of higher quality
– Embrace the new paradigm
– Don’t complain about being modded. It happens to everyone and they are fair about it; they just use different standards than most of us are used to.

@thriftymaid – AB used to have threads under each separate answer. Fluther does things differently in that each question only has one “thread” that contains both comments and answers. Just because it’s not the type of thread you are used to, that doesn’t make it any less “thready”. Hence the use of whispers and @

@jerv Great points made!

@jerv – i agree totally, its time to stop the point scoring and communicate like adults

It’s addicting.

You may find yourself caring less about family trifles that don’t REALly concern you!