When do Fluther users stop being 'newbies'?

1,000 lurve.

or, uh… “spending the night” in the 20k palace.

@serafina : Doing my part for you, GQ!

@JilltheTooth Aw Bless you!

500 lurve. After 100 GA’s or 167 GQ’s it should be good enough. “Actually” I wouldn’t worry about it. :)

@Adirondackwannabe 167 GQ, i’ll never make it then, so that’s 165 still to go…yikkes! :)

@Adirondackwannabe Doh Ignore the above comment haha. Must be logging off time :)

@serafina Don’t sweat it. There are some “newbies” posting great questions and answers.

You’re no longer a “newbie”

@serafina Yay! (I am laughing uncontrollably)

Ooh, good on ya, @Adirondackwannabe !
@serafina ; Watch out for this guy, he’ll befriend and make you laugh!

@JilltheTooth I’ve sampled this already…thank you both :)

How am I going to prove most guys are dicks if you say that about me?
(Thanks guys, that’s pretty nice to hear.)

@Adirondackwannabe We already know this anyway…silly!

If you ever get Lurve out of Lucillielucillelucille then you have made the grade but not before! ;)

After you send Andrew $20.

Well going by your avatar. For me, you can shed as much as you like. NOOB! ;¬}

@serafina How’s that for no longer being a newbie?

@Adirondackwannabe :)

@serafina Hope we got your weekend of to a good start. :)

@Adirondackwannabe You’ll never know how much you all cheered me up today…lots of luv to you all xxx

When they start refering to themselves as “Jellies” and not “Fluther Users.” ;)

Damn it!

I am a Fluther User!

I envision Fluther in three stages that build upon each other. I think of it as climbing a mountain.
Stage 1.) New members that join to seek answers. Their initial question is, ‘What can I get out of this experience?’

Stage 2.) Once you gain some experience, the next stage is, ‘How can I help other Jellies?’ This doesn’t exclude Stage 1…it still exists.

Stage 3.) This is the summit. It is for those devoted to effectively running Fluther, which comes in several roles. They get the big picture of its value. And it doesn’t exclude Stage 1 or 2.

In my opinion, once you start moving out of Stage 1 and into Stage 2, where you want to sincerely help others with your own experiences and expertise, then you are no longer a newbie. Your start date and amount of Lurve points has nothing to do with it…Your comfort for the site and understanding of it’s purpose does.

5000 lurve.

I like @Pied_Pfeffer answer the most.

At the same time I’ve noticed I pay more attention to people with over 5k lurve.

@Jabe73 But, but… that means you’re a newbie! Gasp!

I don’t really have an answer to this. It just seems like one day you’re new, then you blink, and suddenly you’re not. Next thing you know, you’ve been here for years and work for the place!

It really varies. I’ve always felt like one. I can never tell when I’m going to step on somebody’s toes.

@stranger_in_a_strange_land : Yeah, but they’re virtual toes so it doesn’t hurt as much. ;-)

@augustlan 5000 was a guess. That’s when I noticed people start getting congratulated on their lurve. I don’t see this with 1000, 2000 or 3000 lurve. At 5k however you are still not in the mansion. I noticed some on here are not new, have been on here for 1 or 2 years and still have less than 5k. Some are on here a year and hit 10k. Maybe in the end it comes down to popularity, time spent on here and reputation (on equal grounds with lurve).

After 4 months 6 days 8 hours and 10 seconds.

@mattbrowne : Damn. I was really hoping my 5K would do it.

@JilltheTooth My 3000 lurve beats your 5000 then because I’ve been on here around 5 months, I do not think you could have been on here any more than around 2 or 3 months.

@Jabe73 : 2 months. You win. But I obviously spend way more time sitting in this stupid chair staring at the flickering screen not attending to things in my real life. Yup, real proud of that I am! ;-)

@JilltheTooth Well I can’t criticise you there, sometimes real life and people get to be too much after a while.