Adopt a Newbie - Moving to new thread

[Ellies]

Welcome to cs

[Erin_Jane]

Welcome Felkes

[Berylite]

Username: -Toasty-
Why should you be able to adopt a newbie?: Because I am a quite experienced player here on CS.. *Nod Nod*
Why do you want to?: I simply want to give a new player a warm welcome to CS and explain everything they need to know. I screwed up pretty badly when I stated this.. XD
Are you going to help them whenever they need it?: When I'm on, then yes, of course! I might be in a hurry, not near a computer sometimes or just snoring in my bed, so 24/7 help is not guaranteed. :3

[BCS=BFFS4LIFE]

Username: ~Mrs.Mellark~
Why should you be able to adopt a newbie?: I should be able to adopt a newbie because I will do my best and help my newbie to the best of my abilities.
Why do you want to?: I want to adopt a newbie because I know what its like to be new and when I was new, I had nobody to help me and it was hard! I don't want anyone to go through that!
Are you going to help them whenever they need it?: Yes of course I'm going to help whenever they need help!!! I will reply to there PMs and stuff ASAP!

[Autumn.]

Welcome to CS Felkes!^^

[annabeth_chase_]

Welcome Felkes

[thunderofthedrum]

REMEMBER:
- READ THE RULES
- You may request a particular newbie/adopter and I will try to take that into consideration, but I will assign newbies to adopters. I only send out PMs to adopters, who are then expected to PM their newbie with a welcome and introduction.
- The key areas of the site are Trading, Roleplaying, and Oekaki, so if you need to, read up to better help your newbie!
- All newbies AND adopters are always welcome to PM me about anything.

Current Adopters Looking for a Newbie:
~Darkness Angel
~Wolvine
~Spookeh o 3 o
~Snowstar1
~smileyalways
~Taffine
~Into the Sky
~Bonus
~Ivee Rawr ♥
~Stutter.
~neonkiwi
~lil8765
~Neelix
~kellbelldc96
~Skippie97
~hoothead
~Roxine
~~Razzle~
~Kovu+Kiara
~angelpal
~StripedZebra
~Champjay
~ILoveWolves>:3
~|| Smokey.T.Wolf ||
~Cʏɢиɛт.
~Sára
~The_Tide_Keeper
~Frankenwolf
~.:Myth Lady:.
~FabinaBelle
~ForeverAKilljoy
~CalicoWolf
~!Iggy!
~wesleydog
~aquamarine
~s p o t t e d f u r
~lokette and magikarp
~Willow~Sage
~Charm
~greenwolf1998
~~Shimmer~
~Charmens
~BellaWolf-
~The Jinxed Fox
~KatnissofPanem
~Bewitched Melodies
~Thaila
~Blazing_Skies
~Lania
~HuskyInTheMoon
~-Toasty-

[Rosalind]

Username: Rosalind
Why should you be able to adopt a newbie?: I'm a very experienced member, although this account is from 2009 I have been on this site since Tess's birthday dogs and the release of the palomino horse.
Why do you want to?: I'm very knowledgable and I love helping others get off to a good start. Why should people complain about noobs ir they didn't help anyone as newbies?
Are you going to help them whenever they need it?: Of course! To the best of my ability, and if I don't know the answer I will ask someone who does and let them know.

[~Razzle~]

I'm leaving this.
I've been waiting for a very long time, with no contact except for a very rude answer to one of my questions. I'll just help out a newbie without waiting in a line. I don't need your permission.

I'll also give you a few suggestions on how to improve this thread;

Be nicer to us. We don't want to look through the past five pages to see what questions have or haven't been answered. Perhaps we might be in a hurry, and only have enough time to skip through a few posts. When we ask a simple question, you answer very rudely, yelling at us, occasionally giving threats to remove us from the waiting line.

The forms both need to fill out don't give much information. You don't know what the adopter's strength and weaknesses are or what we specialize in, and you don't know what the newbie is having the most trouble understanding. #1 in the list of people to give newbies to has been waiting for almost two months.

You are also ignoring most of the form content. I offered lots of things I can teach and am knolagable in, and you have been 'giving' newbies to people with much scrappier forms than mine.

The 'key points' of CS are none of the ones you listed. Those are just the ones you use most often. You might want to wait a little longer, make a few more posts, learn about how things like this work before doing something like this.
You can be rude, disorganized, and confusing. This thread wasn't thought out very well.

To you people reading this; Reconsider. You don't need to wait in a line to help a newbie. Just go to the introductory form, say hi and a welcome, give them some info, and offer to help them if they need it. You don't have to wait for months at a time to help out.

Edit;
Oh, and for the record, this is not that hacker I was talking about in my signature. :P

[thunderofthedrum]

Okay, I'll try to address things in the order you wrote them; you included quite a few insults but I'll do my best to remain pleasant as possible.

I'm sorry if you thought I was rude; it felt like the billionth time someone had asked that same question and I didn't understand how you thought I would be able to provide a simple answer. Not sure what 'contact' you expected; I simply haven't the time to personally PM every person on the list with daily updates, if that's what you were expecting. I make sure to keep the list updated and immediately assign any newbies to an adopter. You said I answered 'one of' your questions - did I miss one? If so, I apologise, but sometimes it's hard to keep track of who said what with so many users.

I have absolutely no problem with people going out and finding their own newbies; I want newbies to be helped - it's not like I'm making profit from this thread or anything. I find your wording of "I don't need your permission" to be rather rude, honestly.

I have always tried to be nice. I do get frustrated because quite frequently people ask when they will be getting a newbie, and I have no way of knowing that - the best I can do is to keep the list of adopters updated so people know where in line they stand.

I have never yelled, and I have definitely never ever threatened! Where on earth are you getting this idea? The only thing I can think of is when I sometimes posted a reminder of something for people to keep in mind or a similar issue.

I have no control over the thread idea or the form - I am simply a mod, and the thread creator left on a long leave of absence like the day after I joined. I'm not sure what you expect me to do about this.

I am not 'ignoring' the form content - I could assign people by sign up date or by form content, and either way I would get complaints about having to wait. Also, I am going by noleah's example - she is the one who made the thread. I DO look at form content and if I can, give the more struggling newbies to more experienced and better worded adopters if I can, without messing up the line of people who have been waiting a very long time.

I am not sure what you are arguing here. You are saying that trading, oekaki, and roleplaying are not important areas of this website? Those were primarily things that I felt not everyone might be knowledgeable about - some people have never roleplayed, and others have never done oekaki, so simply learning a little about them might help if you are assigned a newbie who is interested in exploring those areas. They are by no means the only 'important' parts of this site, but I wasn't going to create a long list.

I did not 'think out' this thread, so again I don't know what to say to this. I've actually been very organised, keeping lists of users with my own personal notes, tracking who has replied to my PMs, checking up on newbies, replying to questions, etc. I also started working on a few new graphics but I've been very busy and haven't gotten to finish them yet.

Again, not sure when I was rude (granted, the frequent "when will I get a newbie" question does get a little tiresome), and I wonder if perhaps you never noticed - like I have mentioned before - this is not my thread. The very first post, where you find the rules, expectations, form, etc, states that I am the mod, not the creator.

I have only been here since Oct 2010 but I've been around nearly every day. I've also taken care of websites for many years, roleplaying for over ten years, been admin, mod, etc.. This isn't my first rodeo, so to speak. I've built up a list of resourceful links for this website that I have shared with others, and even did a lot of trading and oekaki while I shared an account with my friend - now I'm here mostly to chat, with a dash of pets and roleplaying on the side.

And really - if this isn't for some people, I understand. I am in no way forcing anyone to stay; I know no one anticipated having to wait for this long, but there is honestly very little I can do about it. As Razzle said, you can always just go out and meet a newbie; there is nothing wrong with that. Razzle, I'm not sure why you seem to think I would want to prevent people from helping newbies in other ways.

I rewrote this post three times; I was personally very offended by your accusations and it was rather difficult to not also take the same, very rude, tone. I always welcome suggestions and helpful criticism but I feel that what you did was partially a personal attack, and I really don't understand it. However, I am keeping a LOT of thoughts to myself; I would rather get a reasonable answer, maybe make some positive changes, and get on with life rather than have this turn into some long winded argument that scares away newbies from seeking help.