Hey Good Intentions! Welcome aboard! I've been appointed as your "acclimatisation engineer", stick by me and you won't go far wrong. Here, let me take your bags. Yes, I know where they're going.
Couple of pointers to get you on your feet.
Policy and Help is the first stop for whinging about Moderators, which will happen often, as they are evil. And Nazis. If you're not sure of the protocol regarding this, calling everybody a shower of wankers will usually see you right. This can be accompanied by storming off the board in a huff forever and then returning five minutes later. It's not mandatory, but earns brownie points.
Laboratory love wild, unsubstantiated sci-fi flights of fancy. The higher you are when posting, the better. It's a forum characterised by regular, shared moments of lucid comprehension that subsequently collapse into fits of the giggles.
Books and Art, Fashion and Design are rather busy places, and it's best to keep out until you're used to the clamour. Approximately 76% of Barbelith's daily post-rate is attributed to these two fora and you can see up to 400 posters pass through on any given day. Tom's mooted the idea of moving these two to another server to cope with the enormous bandwidth demands.
The "Bodywork" in the Temple description sub-heading means "Masturbation".
Games + Gameplay is rather 733T. Discussion ranges from the latest tit-bounce algorithims to which is teh gehyer, Master Chief of Sam Fisher?
Gathering only says it's there for lawful meetings to make ourselves feel better. That forum is so dangerous it's untrue.
Don't worry if you get a bit lost. A good rule of thumb when feeling adrift is to crack a couple of racist and/or sexist jokes. That'll have people chuckling and greeting you into the fold in no time!
Glad I could help! |
