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[Shobak]

Hello, World!
After lurking the forums for a rather long time I finally decided to register - here I am! - and tought it would be best if I introduced myself (or, at least, made my existence known) before barging in and/or possibly derailing any conversation.
So... hello, everyone!

[Gunner-Chan]

Making a topic just to introduce yourself is a bit much. And just popping into a discussion would of likely been better. In any case hi and welcome to the forums I guess?

[Sinistar]

Hi Shobak and welcome!

Well, making a topic just to introduce yourself is not a common practice here, but there's nothing really wrong with it either. 
Seems like we lack some sort of "introduce yourself!" thread other communities have (unless we have one and it's buried somewhere?)...
Anyways, enjoy your stay!

[misko27]

Making a topic just to introduce yourself is a bit much. And just popping into a discussion would of likely been better. In any case hi and welcome to the forums I guess?

Ehh, I've seen it enough on other forums to justify someone believing it important. In this case he (and I went and looked this one up) was wrong, but I could certainly imagine it being the case.

Hello there.

[acetech09]

Hello, World!
After lurking the forums for a rather long time I finally decided to register - here I am! - and tought it would be best if I introduced myself (or, at least, made my existence known) before barging in and/or possibly derailing any conversation.
So... hello, everyone!

Welcome to bay12 general discussion, where we have this peculiar phobia against any thread that doesn't have at least 48 pages behind it

All sarcasm aside, welcome to the community. I don't think we're really that close-knit to justify a hello-world thread, as nobody would really notice somebody as being new if you just dropped in on a discussion (especially considering Toady's great move to not show post counts below usernames).

[Flying Dice]

But what if we want to unfairly judge people with arbitrary standards? 

[Frumple]

That's what checking the profile page is for.

Post more in curses, scrub

[LeoLeonardoIII]

Once I saw an Escaped Lunatic first post that didn't have a bunch of posts after it complaining about the guy. It was rare and magical, and fled through the trees before I could let fly my arrow.

Welcome~

[Shobak]

Thank you all for the welcome.

I looked for an introductions thread, but if there is one is well hidden, and I didn't want to just pop in a discussion, so I went ahead and made a new thread. 
But, now that I know that this isn't common practice I'll try to rember if I ever die and am reincarnated. 

[Avis-Mergulus]

Hello, Shobak. See you around or something.

Never saw anybody complain about ELs before, but maybe I have not been here long enough. I'm totes neutral on the matter.

[Avis-Mergulus]

Hello, ignore the people being rude.

Is it just me, or is Bay12 beginning to feel a little xenophobic, now?

It's the lower boards. We're like, more xenophobia, less magma.

However, I must disagree with anybody who says Shobak shouldn't have created a thread for the sole purpose of introducing himself. Threads are often created for much more arbitrary reasons. And this thread is gonna make his Escaped Lunatic status go away, so he (she, they, whatevs) will be subjected to less old man grumblings.

Ignore them, they're all gentlemen geese. Or guise. Gentleman forumites in the guise of geese guys.

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[Mr. Strange]

I for one liked that escaped lunny status and would have liked to keep it longer. But seriously, if threads like these are problem then we should make dedicated Introductions thread and sticky it.

[My Name is Immaterial]

I do blame the game maker.

Hello, anyway, Shobak.

[nenjin]

I do blame the game maker.

Hello, anyway, Shobak.

Ha!

And welcome to the peanut gallery.

[Zangi]

Hello, ignore the people being rude.

Is it just me, or is Bay12 beginning to feel a little xenophobic, now?

It's the lower boards. We're like, more xenophobia, less magma.

However, I must disagree with anybody who says Shobak shouldn't have created a thread for the sole purpose of introducing himself. Threads are often created for much more arbitrary reasons. And this thread is gonna make his Escaped Lunatic status go away, so he (she, they, whatevs) will be subjected to less old man grumblings.

Ignore them, they're all gentlemen geese. Or guise. Gentleman forumites in the guise of geese guys.

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Well, it's just that I've noticed, it used to be, with threads like this, everyone saying hello. Now it's a number of people saying there was no point. Not a great start to being on a forum.

Then in other games, when someone would make an account to advertise a game, it was generally a warning. I've seen people indirectly tell the thread maker to fuck off, recently.

Yea, we have a range of reactions to escaped lunatics advertising games in Other Games.  From welcoming to fuck off.
It may depend on the quality of the post... some are quite barebones... which I agree is more deserving of berating. 
It may even depend on whichever forum member comes along first...


As for introduction threads... I'm in the 'we don't really need one' camp.  Just show up in a discussion and put your say.  It is how I got started. 
There are way too many forumgoers that come and go for each and everyone to post an introduction.

Counterpoint: We are not Xenophobic.  Escaped Lunatics can jump in any thread and as long as they contribute to it, noone would even bat an eye.  We'd treat em as we would any of our other brethren.