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Well, I checked in the Friends Chat section of the CB, and it seems that people are starting to adopt newbies. So, I thought I should do the same. I want to make "good" Gaians, not those Gold-hungry animals in the CB. gonk I think this shall be a good way for me to play Gaia, instead of Poll Whoring all day. T'is a good hobby too. =) What do you guys think of it? And last but not least, if yuo guys do adopt a newbie, teach them, but don't spoil them. sad

Wow, Omni, you go, dude, rofl! =P Learning to abuse the system, eh? Maybe I should try some of that, haha. I was never actually adopted, but I had a bunch of friends when I first started. No one really helped me at all when I joined, period. I just learned from experience, however, a friend of mine that I knew in real life, whose real name is Tony, helped me a bit along the way. His username "was" Jade_Falcon1337, or something along the lines of that. Now it's Crimson Twlight, I think. But yeeeh, I had my bad and good experiences on Gaia. I learned that teaching newbies can be fun, I just would hate to teach a n00b.

Haha, rofl, "unofficially" adoptation, huh? Sounds odd to me, heh, but I get what you mean. smile

I've never really thought of adopting a newbie. XD I helped Naito out when she first joined. I tried to explain what kind of posts went where because I think that posting etiquette is really the most important part of the website, or the conduct. I gave her a top I had lying around too. XD

Gosh when I was new it was so scary! I was just a lurker for the most part. I lurked around the harsher areas though so I didn't really know how good it could be. Like the GD and stuff. D: But back in the day, there were no guilds so yeah...had to go somewhere. ^^;

I think if I did that 'adopt a newb' thing, I wouldn't place so much of an emphasis on the gold/items. I mean if they needed a bit of help every once in a while for a quest I wouldn't mind, but not if like they always seem to be on a quest or something, and they are items that can be easily bought after a bit of posting around (90s pants, snowboard junk, etc). I hate when people add me to their friendslist, but the only time they contact me is to ask for donations. D: Must teach newbs not to do that for sure!

I was adopted by some young 'un but we had no real common discussion interests. I learned everything by reading the stickies even though my first ever topic was moved to the chatterbox in under ten minutes.

I wouldn't know what to do. I know when I first came here I didn't know what to do. In fact when I posted to ask about the site...the only response I got was to make gold xp

Well that was when I took the high road and you can say temporarily quit gaia on my first day. Didn't come back until a month later. You can say I had a hard time fitting in and in fact I didn't make a friend until about 3 months later which is today the same person who helps me run my charity. It worked out for the best

Adopting a newbie is not a bad idea and at least they have a friend to guide them and not be like me running around without a head for months. Not sure if I can take on the responsibility of doing such a thing. I think I will stick with giving people things without any strings involved mrgreen

Awe. The adopting newbies thing sounds really nice. I'd get involved with that, but seeing as I can't get on Gaia half as much as I used to be able to I'd be a terrible 'big sis' or whatever.
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Otherwise, I think I can just donate randomly, but I'm too much of a gold whore.
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Whe I first joined Gaia I wasn't adopted, seeing as I was (and still am) rather scared of the forums. I'd just window shop myself enough money. I actually finally started to get a decent amount of gold coming in once I opened elseWHERE. Along the way I more or less taught myself Gaia etiquette and such.
I guess I turned out alright.
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