The Newbie's Guide to S-B

[Maverick]

Welcome Young Buck,
You have just entered the land of Stupid-Boy.
Many magical things await you.
Though you must first register.
To do this, click the register link at the top left of your screen.
After the link has loaded you must decide something very crucial: your User Name.
Your User Name should reflect your personality and style, it should flow with your aura and negate nothing about you. Later I will discuss picking an Avatar that suits both your User Name and your personality.

Orginality is crucial in deciding your User Name. Names such as Personman, reallyhotgirl, or aperson are discouraged greatly. After all, if everone had such names, nobody would know anyone else.
Also, a community site is no place for a name with numbers. It is hard to make a good impression with 12312321 after your name. It is NOT needed and has you come off as a bot or a useless figure.
S-B is a home and sometimes it's best to check and see if somebody has a name similar to yours. I personally know that if somebody came up with a name with Maverick in it, I'd feel pissed off. You can search to see if your desired user name is available by using the search option located at the top of your screen.

Overall, remember that orginality and a little respect in deciding your User Name are the key to a successful stay at S-B.

Next------>
Part II: Choosing Your Avatar

[Pita]

Hopefully the noobies look at it before they register..lol

[Maverick]

Maybe Ruby will give me a forum

[Pita]

Don't get your hopes up, she got rid of the Lobby, i doubt she'll make a place for noobies again.

[Trionix]

Just quickly, why cant people use numbers in their name? Bots can't sign up, so what's the problem?

[wizen]

Is this actually serious?

[Trionix]

Being as Mav appears to have returned from whence he came with some kind of brain haemmorage, I assumed not. But it reminded me of an instance a while ago, when it was said that people shouldn't have numbers in their names.

[rubytuesday]

If that was said it was said by a member. The only note admin has made about it was me (and that was a while back). I offered, for those that desired, to remove the numbers from their name on the premise that in the computing world we are so often forced to have numbers in the names of our choice.

One person took me up on it. No biggie.

[demon]

Why doesn't Ruby put it in the "theres more if you register" thing in the non-logged in part of the board

[Trionix]

People might sign up only for the 'more stuff', find out what it is, and leave, leaving us with a shitload of pointless memberships.