Quote Originally Posted by Yamaneko View Post
"Newbie" denotes a new member, most likely not "new" to the community forum aspect of the Internet. These people are well-balanced and their only real flaw is that they joined after you did. "n00b" refers to a new member who is oblivious to the rules and practices of community forums in general. These people have grammatical skills akin to the children who just got off the short bus.
It's still stupid to call them something with a couple of zero's in the middle of it. It's not like we're trying to avoid a filter or anything. If they were to come up with a better name then I'd accept it more openly. I would rather 'noob' than 'n00b' (although I also find 'noob' to be a word that I would expect to be used by the dumbest of high school bullies rather than intelligent members of this forum).