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Rihanna12 wrote:

hunt1199 wrote:

lilmarco1994 wrote:

ya the word noob shuld be treated like a curse word open nor text should be able to use it it is very insulting. people take the word noob like your dum and slow and you not skilled at all this word should be banned

i am against it also. its not a bad word or anything its actually just short for newbie. People call me noob lots of times but i am a level 48 master! it amazes me how people get lucky and think that since they beat me i am weak.

Newbie and noob are different, actually. Newbie is just a low level. And noob is an annoying low level.

I'll be honest. I can't find any defintion articulating noob as annoying. All definitions speak to the experience (or inexperience) of the subject in adjective. I did see differences in that noob was nearly exclusive to online gaming, while newbie was used for other genres.

I remember when my younger sister and I started playing the game. She was befriended by a guy, near the same level as her. He then messaged her "Your a Big Fat Noob" or something along those lines. She wasn't even thirteen, but had got text chat so we could play together while I was away and talk. I tried to report him, but he had defriended her afterwards and I couldn't figure out how to pull his list up to report. I was new too so I didn't know you could click on his words. I support the banning of the word noob. Someone once made this distinction to me- A noob is someone who is annoying, often rude and can be any level, whereas a newb means someone new to the game who wants to learn.

onionbag wrote:

sanmil0963 wrote:

I often hear this word a lot, but don't understand it's meaning. Would someone be so kind to tell me what a noob is?

Thank you.

In all honesty I would like this answer also. It seems that the old fashioned military term New On Base, NOB, has been street slanged into a demeaning slur, noob, so as to invoke an emotional response. It is simply put a common form of verbal harrassment. If my statements are correct, it's a bit petty. Would anyone care to confirm or correct my understanding of the meaning for the term noob? This is the only logical assessment I can deduce as to the origins for the term. Thanks

isnt the word "noob" short for newbie? as in new player?

I always reply with something like, "Coming from you, that must be a compliment. If I'm better than you, and I'm a noob, you must be pretty low."

The ones that are the first to insult are always the ones that throw temper tantrums when you beat them. I once fought a WL as a Private, he and his friends kept calling me a 'noob' and a 'cheater' and worked around the filter to swear at me. I found it very funny when I beat that WL and he downranked; he was too shocked to insult me before I ported away after laughing.

It's been two years and half since this complaint was logged.

I believe that Kings Isle unspoken response is that the word is here to stay.

I too think it is rude and annoying. As a legendary I know that mostly legendaries will say it to anyone lower than them and even more if they are losing.

I completely agree because once I accidentally turned off my text chat and had "noob chat" (quoted) and I found out that the person I thought had been nicely helping me had been making fun of me and my "noob chat"

Noob does not bother me at all when I was a low level I called myself a noob! Not insulting at all may be a little rude to others but it is not a reportable offense. Sure people who taunt you and call you a noob are just being rude or might be joking sometimes. I am called a noob by other legendaries because I have not got my Phoenix pet yet and have not beat grizzleheim yet does not bother me at all I just ignore them and most of the time they are joking with me. Don't get phased by this word just calm down take a deep breath walk away or put them on your ignore list

Rihanna12 wrote:

I'm sure you walk around hearing people saying the word, noob, I hate that word. Did you know: That some people think noobs are dumb people. It's a common misunderstanding. I don't think people should make fun of people at most level 12, because they were one at one point, even I was one (so cute when I was just a little apprentice theurgist), so I think the text chat should block the word, noob, because it's not correctly used, and I don't like it all!

Caroline Sunbright
Grandmaster theugist level 50

Well, I know its used in the wrong way, but it does make sense to use the word noob sometimes. Like as someone suggested, when a novice maybe used a feint with a wand spell. But i also do not like it when people use the word noob in an inappropriate way. Like one time I was watching my friend in pvp, and upon losing, the guy my friend was fighting, called him a treasure noob. But my friend had told me that he was sad he had no treasure cards for the ranked pvp match he was about to play. ( And I also had none lol ) We didnt say anything, because we were both smart enough to not start a fight. The best thing to do when you see a person say noob in the wrong way is ignore that person, then maybe try to cheer up the person who got called noob, and maybe own the person who called him a noob in pvp :D But the last thing I might do, if it gets serious or something, and say i'm just watching in the commons, just ignore it and keep doing whatever your doing :)

niyadjahan wrote:

i agree and disagree. i agree because people always use that word. i disagree to because then they'll find new ways to say it, like NO O Be or something like that.

blaze duskstone legendary conjurer

Well now they disabled caps so I won't be seeing it. Of course other open chat people will be, but I won't because I'm a filtered chat :-)

acrios90 wrote:

I could see both sides of this argument

On one hand even though the word noob technically isn't a insult, you know the people using it mean it as one

On the other hand, your talking about tons of gamers here! if they took out noob they would find some other meaner word and or phrase.

Kingsile is smart by leaving it in, Because noob is probably the nicest insult word they could have, (And it is a word that usually cant be carried over IRL)
If someone walked up to me IRL and called me a noob I probably wouldn't be Insulted because my first thought would be " If they use that word IRL then they probably don't have much of a life"

LOL my sister called me a noob the other day while i was playing Black Ops.

And I agree with you 110%. They should leave it in for those and many other reasons.