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Originally Posted by Trumbull
- New members won't/shouldn't jump into discussion with strongly held opinions shortly after joining.
^ Can someone explain this one to me?
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When you join a group, society, team, etc. there should be a little bit of a feeling out period on how to act. You look around at your surroundings, and see how people act and how they talk with each other. You try and fit into the group. I'm not saying you need to become a clone, but I am saying you shouldn't go into a foreign environment acting like you own the place. Instead of swinging your ###### around to make sure everyone knows you are new and/or obnoxious, maybe try acting like a part of the society that has been created, in order to be accepted by it. You may not be who I thought you were, but you hold a lot of similar, unfavourable traits that he did. Going into threads and telling long time posters they are wrong, dumb, ninnies, etc., taking contrary opinions for the sake of being a contrarian, talking down to people, etc. is the exact opposite of what you should do.
In the month of June there have been 20 new posters. There's only one that people are questioning the motives, and isn't making many friends. You may not care if you make friends here, but I wouldn't want to go somewhere, just to annoy everyone who has been in the organization for a long time. I'd hope that in my first few days I wouldn't upset so many people that threads are created specifically for and about me, while others get so derailed because of the storm I created.