Is the term "noob" starting to become offensive?

[blurredvision]

It seems as if lately "around" the internet, the term noob is becoming more and more hated. Some even take great offense to it.

What do you think, is it becoming an offensive term of the internet, or is it still a general term that is widely overlooked?

 

[DivideBYZero]

STFU, n00b :|

 

[mitmot]

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero
STFU, n00b :|

 

[DaShen]

n00b,

 

[KLin]

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero
I'll STFU because I'm a n00b :|

fixed.

 

[Saint Nick]

i don't think so...

 

[nakedfrog]

Was it ever a nice term?

 

[Ktulu]

isn't it supposed to be offensive?

 

[tfinch2]

When was noob considered a term of endearment?

 

[JulesMaximus]

No, but n00bs themselves are frequently offensive.

 

[vrbaba]

would depend on the context.
if someone at work called you a n00b at something specific (not explicitly, but saying like "this is a good reference for noobs" referring it to u) it would be offensive.

 

[Ns1]

only if you're a n00b

 

[GasX]

The problem is not the word. The problem is people who take offense.

 

[Scouzer]

its kind of a piss off depending on context

 

[Zysoclaplem]

Anyone who places a connection between high post count and intelligent posts is a moron. I have seen some of the most remarkable posts on this board come from posters with less than 1k posts and some of the most worthless crap come from those with over 10k.
n00b is an offensive term used to make whomever posted the remark feel better about his/herself when he/she can't contribute anything but a high post count.

 

[AMDZen]

I don't take offense to it personally. Everyone is a n00b at something. I'll even admit to it. "Yea I'm a n00b when it comes to this SQL thing, can you remind me again what this error code refers too?" And if someone refers to me as a n00b but is mistaken, I'll defend myself and prove that I'm not. Sometimes making the n00ber the n00bee.

 

[captains]

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero
STFU, n00b :|

 

[purbeast0]

its more and more hated because people are abusing the word and using it for any and everything.

its not that its offensive, its that is fvcking annoying to see it 1000000 times a day on the internet.

 

[mdchesne]

noob is a word. words are abstract at best, with relavent meaning only for in the here and now. anyone taking offense to a word is taking offense to a null object. so no, ya noob

 

[CVSiN]

Originally posted by: blurredvision
It seems as if lately "around" the internet, the term noob is becoming more and more hated. Some even take great offense to it.

What do you think, is it becoming an offensive term of the internet, or is it still a general term that is widely overlooked?

only offensive if you are a n00b.. sooooo stfu.. n00bie!

 

[shuan24]

its not offensive, its racist!

 

[Sentinel]

Originally posted by: tfinch2
When was noob considered a term of endearment?

When you call your friends it?

 

[imported_Reck]

over a thousand posts and i'm still a noob. pretty funny.

 

[xSkyDrAx]

TPAD, n00b

 

[kranky]

It's offensive in certain contexts. For example...

You have 20 years of networking experience. You've done wiring, set up hubs, switches and routers, configured TCP/IP, DHCP, NetBIOS, NetBEUI. You've done VPNs. You've set up routing tables based on star and ring topologies. You've installed wired, wireless and satellite networks. You even tweaked bang paths when using UUCP in order to save one hop.

Then one day you are asked to fix an intermittent network glitch affecting one end of the building. Days go by and you can't pin it down. All the equipment and all the wiring checks out but the network keeps hiccupping every once in a while. To minimize disruption, at night you try swapping equipment, trying different jacks, patch cables and even hubs. But the problem still comes back later.

You're in the wiring closet looking at equipment for the 20th time one day when one of the maintenance people comes by. After you tell him what you're working on. he says, "You're having problems with equipment run out of this wiring closet? That's strange, it's one of the cleanest ones in the building." Uh, cleanest? "Yeah, we've been working on this drywall on and off with the electric sander and to keep the dust under control I'm running the vacuum cleaner in here a couple times a day."

The light comes on and you realize you've found the problem. You explain it to the maintenance person, who rolls his eyes and says, "I guess it would take a noob a whole week to figure out that problem."