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The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers:
PART TWO: THE FORUM
5) People are making fun of me. What should I do?
Ignore them.
That's not always a satisfactory solution, though. The thing about TWG is that the regulars have come to be able to depend on what type of information and posts they'll get from the others. They know and like each other. And they don't like change. This is not unuusual for online communities, and we try to be different, but "n00bs" aren't always greeted with open arms.
However, newcomers are usually accepted after a time. If you stick with it, and pay particular attention to the ettiquette notes above, and give us comments worth hearing, any teasing will cease soon enough.
Note that particularly irksome to our regulars are l33t-speak, capitals, and the resurrection of very old posts, especially for "me too" type posts.
If the teasing is particularly abusive, please feel free to contact JamPaladin, who is the forum moderator.
The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers:
PART FOUR: ACRONYMS AND TERMINOLOGY
1) TWG - This refers to this website and the people run and participate in it. It stands for Time-Waster's Guide.
2) TLE - This is the abbreviation for The Leading Edge. See Part 1, section 3 above.
3) AORP - Arthurian Online RolePlaying. Before there was TWG, many of the current staff and TLE staff participated in this forum based RPG. It migrated to TWG eventually and started the Alternate Realities section of the board.
4) LDS - Latter-Day Saint. Also known as a "Mormon." Many of the staff and participants (probably a majority) are members of this religion, and they take it seriously. They don't force their views on you, but be aware of this aspect of TWG culture.
5) BYU - Brigham Young University. Located in scenic Provo, Utah, this is the LDS-owned university that sponsors TLE and where most of the staff attended school for undergraduate work.
6) Regular User Nicknames - There are a number of regulars, with sometimes strange and/or long nicknames. As a result, abbreviations are frequent. Fellfrosch is known as Fell, SaintEhlers as SE, Spriggan as Sprig, JamPaladin as JP, and so on.
Two nicks you should be aware of is that "fuzzy" always has and always will refer to FuzzyOctopus. And EUOL stands for Evil Undead OverLord. If you want to know where other nicks came from, you'll have to ask.
Another tradition at TWG is the celebration of holidays -- especially Christmas -- by nick changing. The person who can come up with the cleverest variation of their nick and still have it recognizable by the regulars feels good about himself.
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