With any established
community that is open to
anyone and everyone who wants to join it, there eventually comes along someone who likes the game, but doesn't want to
play by the rules that everyone else is using. They break common social taboos, they tell everyone that they're either
l33t or
l4m3, they do a host of bothersome things, in the process generally tending to make a
nuisance out of themselves in the process.
Among
groups of writers, they write stories that make use of violently
lame plot devices and poor characterization. Among the members of a gaming
clan, they play badly and/or insult everyone that dares to challenge them. Among
Everythingians, they node obscene titles and node them poorly.
Generally, these types of
newbies fall into one of two categories- those that learn from the people (im)patiently disapproving of their output and improve themselves to the standards of the
community, and those that, having grown disenheartened from the almost universal disapproval, remove themselves from the
community.