Wow.. I was checking out some of the stuff I posted back in '05

cole

My god I was an idiot. I had horrible grammar, and I ran around telling people off.

With my third post:
"When your new, respect your elders. Mono-type teams are all one type. Of course your going to have weaknessess. It's ovbious. Research, learn, and be forgivin. Also, grammer and spelling can help you gain respect. Use them while your still a noob. After you get some respect, then you can talk like that."

>_> I feel bad for you guys having to deal with me then. In my defense, I was twelve.

So.... ITT, we share stories of ourselves as newbs.
 
I made a similar thread to this a while back :P. Look up my post history.

Ironically, my thousands of retarded posts way back in the day never warranted a "SHUT ME THE FUCK UP" or "I could be banned!" custom title, whereas my more recent posts have. :P
 
Yeah, I got an infraction for the first time about two weeks ago. Even my mentor wouldn't talk to me, but if memory serves he was a tremendous dickface.
 
I haven't been here for long, but way back when I was new to Pokemon at GameFAQs, I had a team rating topic for the Yellow board. Charmeleon411 told me to come rate his team at the main board, and all I remember is suggesting Vine Whip on his Tangela and to take Amnesia off of Mewtwo.

We had a pretty good rivalry from there. I learned a thing or two from those guys though.

Damn, that was a long time ago.
 
I wrote some absolutely horrible analyses for pokedaily back in the day. I'm surprised they gave me the keys to that website still...no, I won't share what they are.
 
also, cole, in 2 years, you will probably slap your forehead remembering what your user location was.

that's alright though, you were just 14.
 
It's been my first half-year at Smogon, and i havent been infracted, havent had a custom title "i could be banned" branding, i havent had any threads locked, so i feel like i'm fitting in comfortably.

However, this place IS intimidating.
 
I didn't really say anything stupid here when I first joined, since I didn't post much until a few months ago.

I had awful grammar and everything though when I joined another forum a few years ago and I don't think I had one post that wasn't bad
 
Hell, everyone screws up once and a while. Look at me!

I'm surprised no one ever gave me a "SHUT ME THE FUCK UP" custom title. In fact, I would have worn it proudly. I should make a button with that on it and wear it around at the 'shop - some of them visit Smogon and could get a good kick out of it.

StrangerDanger said:
However, this place IS intimidating.
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See, the thing is - to me, it's not intimidating. Maybe because I really don't giving a flying fuck about what people think about me (god knows I've gotten enough crap about being a pseudo-furry) so I end up slipping up occasionally because I'm not too afraid of screwing up.
 
I made some pretty stupid posts in my days too, eh.

EDIT: Holy crap, I was bored and checked out the old photo album in the thread... talk about memories of the gsbots.
 
It's fortunate for me that a lot of my stupid posts came before I joined Smogon... it's amazing that I encountered numerous boards with absolutely abysmal moderation, so I was able to get away with so much shit.
 
At first I was really afraid of posting, thinking someone might make fun of it. I was really newbie back then. So I "lurked moar" and it helped me avoid most of it :)
 
I'm glad I can't see my old posts at the old Smogon because I was a dumbass :}

Not like my old posts in here are good, but they are much better, I guarantee you that. My english was so much worst.

EDIT: lol i still do remember my first post though, it was in the np thread and it was something by linkin park.

EDIT2: hm hey doommullet it was a joke :\
 
Arceus said:
I'm surprised no one ever gave me a "SHUT ME THE FUCK UP" custom title. In fact, I would have worn it proudly. I should make a button with that on it and wear it around at the 'shop - some of them visit Smogon and could get a good kick out of it.
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Yeah, it's that kinda stupidass attitude which is why we don't use it anymore, not to mention Coober of the Week's.

When I first joined Smogon, I was coming from Uber where everyone knew and liked me (well except for Bacon and pr0nny), so I thought I was King Shit of Turd Mountain. I got bitchslapped by some of the regulars here and left for a month. I came back with less of an attitude, but if you look at all my old posts you'll notice that a majority of them are solely flames (many towards Basics, actually). That's kinda how I got noticed around here.
 
pretty much all my bad posting was done on gamefaqs, but that was my prime trolling ground too for the longest time (ask people like rekt and sir spanky and twinks [and maybe even ssbm roy though i dont remember if he actually frequented]). man, the pokemon boards were great, because the biggest 'vets' were just the most renowned trolls. i really dont know why people liked me over there, lol. i just trolled and pretended i was good at pokemon.

anyways, i think i cleaned up my act for smogon, and i dont recall any atrocious posting ive done on this site. oh, except for that 'what the fuck is this thread' slogan i popularized for awhile without even thinking about it. that fucking sucked.
 
I made a lot of horrible posts on Azure Heights back in '01 haha I joined that later though, my home has always been IRC :-) I'm like the only person who started on IRC and THEN went to a board.
 
I did most of my noobing on IGN, the only person nowadays who would be able to tell you how horribly stupid I was is TheBM unless Absolut-Kaos comes back or something. Basically I told AK he was elitist in my adoption thread...bad move there _unknown_1!

Though to be honest, my first post at Smogon wasn't that great either. It was in some team tournament sign up thread where I asked if Celebi could be banned. As if there was any chance I'd be picked by anyone let alone have anything to say about the rules...

But for IGN standards I was pretty cool by then and I improved rather rapidly on Smogon too so not much harm done.
 
DoomMullet said:
Yeah, it's that kinda stupidass attitude which is why we don't use it anymore, not to mention Coober of the Week's.

When I first joined Smogon, I was coming from Uber where everyone knew and liked me (well except for Bacon and pr0nny), so I thought I was King Shit of Turd Mountain. I got bitchslapped by some of the regulars here and left for a month. I came back with less of an attitude, but if you look at all my old posts you'll notice that a majority of them are solely flames (many towards Basics, actually). That's kinda how I got noticed around here.
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We cool, we cool. :)
 
I've already been infracted 3 times here lol. One was for just plain not reading the rules and the other 2 because I typed up exactly what I was thinking. I like to be straight up honest with people, and that gets me in trouble sometimes. I do apologize for those, and hope no mod has a grudge against me. :)
 
I currently have four infractions. Three for not reading the rules, and one for playing Moderator. I'd like to think of these as reminders, but seeing those red spots makes me feel... bleh.

As long as we're talking about infractions, when do they, if ever, disappear?
 
They expire after a certain time, they never disappear, it's like a criminal record.

And Jesus... 4 infractions in 3 months... That sure doesn't seem like a reminder.
 
This doesn't have to do with Smogon, but when I first found out about NetBattle, I wanted to download it and use my newbish movesets with moves like Hyper Beam and Blast Burn on them. Good thing I never downloaded it.
 
I also did most of my retarded posting at gfaqs, it was funny indeed that the trolls were the most renowned users

When I was new here I must have made 4 or 5 dumb posts but happily they went unnoticed and then I went back to lurking
 
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