I think newbies are great. I love being the Eternal Newbie. If it weren't for newbies, this place would get boring a lot faster than it already does for a lot of people - in some cases, the people who complain about this place being boring are also the people who scare away the newbies who have the potential to make the place a little more interesting. Taking that oe step further, in some cases, people who say that EoFF is getting boring are also the ones who insist that all the happy-sappy type ideas that people come up with are dumb. Not that I haven't agreed on some occasions, mind you. I'm no saint. But if there's one thing I try not to do, it's insult or be cruel to newbies. I wish we would get more sometimes.

I never made a newbie thread but I joined when everyone who was a newbie had the same avatar (the one I continue to use today), so everyone knew I was new, and I got the "newbie treatment" of the day. This included a welcoming from a few Cid's Knights hoping I'd stick around, a warning about NeX and then NeX eating me. I was happy to be eaten by NeX but I think having sex with newbies isn't nearly as appropriate or fun(ny).