Newbie survival guide (unofficial, uncensored & un-uber)In my seemingly boundless arrogance and boredom and drawing both upon my observations of the social interaction between long time members of the forum and newbies and recollections of various posting habits that shit me to tears I have decided to jot down a few hints and tips to get the forum newbies off to an amicable start.
1) DO NOT come here and tell us that your car is the fastest in australia/the world/the universe if you have no proof. You will be flamed and will have less respect than the average newbie.
2) Choose a name carefully, don't try too hard to be uber-anything. It almost certainly won't work. Choose something that reflects your personality or is meaningful to you.
3) Don't use the word/prefix uber.
4) Don't post just to get your post count higher. Nobody cares. Correction, nobody worth caring about cares. The only way you will earn the respect of others is with your ideas, your emotions, humor and knowledge.
5) New members are not permitted to advertise on antrx until they have made the required 15 posts.. New users will also not be able to see the for sale section until they have reached 5 posts. There are very good reasons for this, the main one being protection of antrx members (i.e. we dont want them being ripped off by scammers) and the 2nd is we do not appreciate people signing up for the sole purpose of selling. you want to sell your car and you're new to antrx, advertise it in a paper.
6) Use a spelling/grammar checker. It doesn't take long.
Q) What's wrong with this sentence? I could of gone too a cruise but their where people the're who wanted to kill me because my grammar is two bad and i oun nothing black to were to.
A) It will almost certainly make the grammar Nazi contingent of the forum want to make you bleed from you eyes and rectum. They will either flame you if they are in a particularly anal/pissy mood or they will think you are a moron and silently seethe (which is arguably worse).
See grammar quick ref. at bottom of post.
6) Don't pointlessly resurrect ancient and long dead threads, especially where you reply to some comment made by someone 2 years ago who has probably moved to Japan to shag hot Japanese girls and drive hotter cars. This pisses people off because, the thread is probably no longer relevant and/or you could be dredging up unfortunate comments people made when they were clueless newbies.
7) Feel free to ignore this advice in part or in whole. Who the fuck am I anyway, and besides we all get a giddy thrill out of watching Chadza, SSS and Tas hunt
8.)
DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES TELL US SOMETHING IS 'FULLY SICK BRO!'9) Do tell me or anyone else who tries to shove their opinions down you throat or is rude to you to get fucked! In the nicest possible way of course
Grammar quick check: This is a rough guide to the more commonly misused forms. I have tried to use meaningful examples
Their/There/They're Their - Means Something belonging to a person/group eg.. "Those guys are ricers! Just look at
their neon lights and spinner hubcaps!"
There - Means 'that location'. eg. "You simply aren't intelligent enough to be seen talking to me, please go over
there"
Can also be used in the for 'there are' with the meaning 'exists' eg. "
There are three people in that toilet cubicle!"
They're - A contraction of 'they are'. eg "
They're staring at me, did I blow them off at the lights or something?"
Two/Too/To Two - Its a number (2), it comes after one(1) eg. "Yes noss, you left their sorry asses at the last
two sets of traffic lights, hahahaha"
Too - Means 'as well' or 'also' eg. "Is this a motec system exhaust
too?"
Can also mean excessive "One bourbon is never enough and 38 is one
too many"
To - To is used as part of a verb or as a preposition eg. "I am going
to ask noss if he can make me a custom chip for my pintara"
Where/Were/we're Where - Means at or in what place eg. "
Where have my keys gone?"
Were - Past tense plural of 'to be' eg. "We
were all stuck in budgie's car last night cause he lost the keys (go figure)"
We're - Contraction of 'we are' eg. "
We're all sheep-shaggers in New Zealand" (sorry fraz)
Resources:
http://www.gothic.org.au (yes i stole this but changed it to suit antrx)
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/ http://dictionary.reference.com/ You can do a grammar and spell check in the compose window of hotmail, under tools.