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event: Hug a Newbie Week at UKB
shark:
It seems that UKB is an intimidating place for newcomers. We don't bite and welcome fresh meat posters. :wave:
It doesn't matter that you don't climb Font 8A and live in Sheffield though obviously it helps. UKB is the natural home for obsessed climbers who are either attached or unattached to pieces of string. You don't have to be boulderer to chat on UKB just a committed climber of whatever variety. You can express yourself freely on UKB and post pictures or videos using the smiley people :thumbsup: to make your points. You can even swear :o. Very little is censored here except trolling (i.e. deliberately winding people up for the sake of it) misogyny, racism, homophobia, violence etc. You are free to express an opinion but specific defamation (i.e. factually untrue statements against individuals or organisations) may land you (and us) in court. You can award +ve karma (wad points) to posters that have made you laugh, think or quietly applaud, or smite them with -ve karma (punter points) if they didn't.
Here are some pointers:
- Register here
- Want to talk about routes ? Post on Chuffing with sub-forums for shameless beta requests and posting new routes
- Bouldering? Post on Bouldering also with sub-forums for beta requests and posting new problems
- Want to report some climbing related news? Post on News
- Cant do a one-armer? Post on Diet, training and injuries and join Power Club to make sure you stick to the advice
- Access situation at a crag? Post on Get involved: access, environment, BMC
- Planning a trip abroad? Abroad
- Add videos and photos to our Vimeo and Flickr groups
And lots more. We are also starting to generate content so if you have an idea for an article pm thesiger
Some do's and don'ts:
- Do learn to use the quote function properly – you can then abuse it for comedy value
- If you are a refugee from UKC please don’t whine about that site here. It's tedious and causes us (the site owners) unnecessary complications
- Actually play safe and don't reference UKC/Mick Ryan at all - it's a minefield. There is a lot of historical antagonism that hopefully we can move on from. I did in one of my first posts and was lucky that my thread was only moved to the logpile (aka the shit heap) rather than get heaped with negative karma
- Don't boast - Dense doesn't like it
- Don't worry if you get -ve karma points to begin with - it's all part of the initiation ceremony
- Make friends with Magpie and post a picture of a fluffy animal on her thread
So don your flame retardant UKB T shirt or hoodie - available here while stocks last and get involved. By the way when I said we don't bite I do, but I'm a shark and can't help myself.
Jaspersharpe:
You forgot to mention that "deliberate winding people up for the sake of it" is absolutely fine as long as the person on the receiving end is (Mc)Fiend.
:dance1:
slackline:
There is also the UKB Wiki that is (very) slowly evolving with resources/links/information on bouldering areas, FAQs, Glossary, finger injuries and a list of web-cams near various climbing venues, etc.
If you want to post pictures then please, please, please read this. Posting videos is pretty straight-forward, just copy the URL from the address page on the YouTube/Vimeo page where the video is hosted, the forum software works out the embedding code all on its own.
Grubes:
I'm pretty new and dont find this place intimidating.
I guess it would be if you were looking for some where to tell the world you thought someone who was better than you is fat ...
SA Chris:
--- Quote from: shark on September 16, 2010, 11:21:01 am ---just a committed climber of whatever variety.
--- End quote ---
That's me fucked then. See you guys around.
Unless you mean by committed you mean crazy, then that's OK, cos I'm a loony me.
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