>>4344038
>Thanks for snapping me back to attention.
Man, that's how we all get to be comfy in the chans. I'm just paying it forward. It really is boot-camp for the mind. Glad to have you.
>>4344037
>What irks oldfags the most? (not sarcastic) Is it lecturing about bewbs
Yes
>or other non-pc stuff?
YES!!
Or something else? Is it the sudden influx of so many of us that don't know the subtle stuff that's not written down?
Nah. We all made little procedural blunders when we started. Watching newfags find their sea legs is more nostalgia than irritant.
>We are grateful to be here, to have to chance to do this work. I would be grateful for your insights.
Takes a big man to ask that, ty. Hope I don't stir a hornets nest here, but if I could sum it up, the thing that irks us most about newfags is going for the easy, immediate feel. Failing to exercise patience and humility keeps people helpless children, not real men, warriors. It's part of why newfags don't lurk long enough, or understand that notables aren't little league trophies to be handed out to any spit-ball theory, or that not all opinions are equal. Part of how the GenX oldfags of the chans were able to create this space is that patience and humility were forced on us by circumstance. White men have been so disenfranchised and demonized, and GenX'ers were the first to experience it while also having grown up, most of us, without parent involvement ("latchkey kids," "the lost generation"). So we developed a very dark understanding that if we were gonna survive, if we hoped to figure anything out, we'd have to do it ourselves. We were slow to come into our own, but it made us stronger. Eventually our dark understanding became gallows humor, which became dank memes, which – and this still blows my mind – became a lynchpin in a WW Mil Intel counter-coup.
I guess what we want newfags to do is what we put in the welcome statement. Not just cuz we don't wanna be irked, but because these are hard times, and hard times call for hard men. The chans were forged in those fires. We don't want newfags to douse that fire, we want to turn newfags into fire-tested warriors.