Will the world ever cease to amaze me?

I think youth noise should give classes on how to debate.

Because most obveously don't understand it. :P

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It IS overdue because we don't HAVE IT YET.

We had threads about it. You can look for them under newbie guide or something like that.

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Originally posted by Hydrok:
And it's not torture... it's "behavioral modification"

Hallelujah. Ooops, I guess we don't need the religious groups after us along with the WHO, the UN, Peta, and World court.

It IS overdue because we don't HAVE IT YET.

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I think it's an idea that's long overdue.

It's not overdue because it's been brought up very very many times.

I see it didn't take long for this to become the most random thread out there...


I think it's an idea that's long overdue. Although the dumb newbies who need the help are the ones who probably do very little reading...thus we would need to find a creative approach...

And it's not torture... it's "behavioral modification"

I think that WHO has bigger things to worry about than a Shock Collar epidemic

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if not PETA, the UN and world court

I don't know about this "World Court", and the UN is fairly tolerant of torture, considering they're experts themselves, but WHO would certainly have something to say (or even do) about it.

and then find himself elected secretary-general

a first grader could keep the UN tied up for years.

if not PETA, the UN and world court but then considering their track record we don't have much to worry about there

true... if you consider noobies animals...

hmmm the PETA would be all over us for that one

Shock collars?

or "Prior to posting make sure what you are communicating is coherent or the other board members will wack you with a mallet"

So we have a problem, now solutions?

Solution should be "attention grabbing"

So how about those fun pop up tips you get when you open Word or Powerpoint...

We can have one that says "prior to posting run it through a word document spell check"

I agree There have been a lot of "newbie guides" and they haven't had sucess. Most newbies never even read things like the rules of play or those threads. I didn't until a while after I joined.

If I understand you correctly, you're suggesting some sort of YN publication newbies would receive upon registering with YN. There've been a lot of newbie guidance threads that haven't done much good, so it does seem like something like this is in order.

The problem is, very few people would read it. I'd wager good money a majority of YNers haven't even really sat down and read the rules of play.

What would rule is some sort of attention-grabbing system that would make a newbie hesitate before making his first post. For instance, if a pop-up with some of these rules appeared when a newbie tried to make his first post, that could maybe be effective. Especially if it started out with something like, "Wait! Don't make a fool of yourself out there! Read this first!"