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by **helix** » 21 Jun 2005 3:02

Hi, Triman,
I think that it all comes down to when you stop asking
n00b questions and start answering correctly, those
same n00b questions, leaving more experienced guys the time to
answer your questions, and the food chain continues.

...Of your 100 posts, how many of those were questions?
...How many were answered "search, n00b!" or "read FAQs!" ?
...How many of your posts were informative or helpful?
(then you'll have graduated to newbie, hehe)

My point is this:

100 questions posted OR 25 informative posts that help someone,
which would you consider to more likely be a n00b?
It is the quality of the posts, not how many there are.

Before you can make the 25 info posts, you need to ask the questions
to get the knowledge.

A teacher learns for 15 years at teachers' school to be qualified
to teach a one hour class on physics. Sort of the same, I think.

I'm sure that you will know when you are not so much a n00b, because
you will feel that the questions you ask will not be answered in the FAQs or posted every day all over the site.

Anyway, does it really matter as long as the info is available
and you're learning something?

Anyway, I'm not having a go at you,
Happy picking, dude.

by **hnimmado** » 21 Jun 2005 16:18

Great site, I hope to learn a lot here.

by **Santos718** » 21 Jun 2005 16:56

Welcome.

by **triman247** » 21 Jun 2005 19:40

Well, i never really got flamed, i only asked a few real easy questions when i was just starting, the rest i just figured out on my own. I try to help some people but in the end it all comes down to how you feel that day. For example: MCM is almost never nice, and say DB is almost always helpful to every one no matter how dumb their question is. I guess im not really a n00b anymore if I follow your idea of what a n00b is.

triman

by **Chrispy** » 21 Jun 2005 20:06

Better watch out... MCM will come after you in the night..... :twisted:

by **triman247** » 22 Jun 2005 0:47

well, we're both from colorado and hes pretty crazy mad at something otherwise he wouldnt flame every person that joins this forum and asks a dumb question. I'll bet that most of the people he flames don't come back.

by **OhMyGodItsFullOfStars** » 22 Jun 2005 4:33

Hey people, i'm new to the site and to lockpicking as well. I'm from Greece and i dont know if the community has any more from my parts, i hope it does.

I just got my first set yesterday and proceeded to attack the doors of my room, they're 5-pined deadbolt locks(well, i'm not sure about the english terminology but they're quite common on doors around here).
It was a great feeling after i heard the final "click" and the tumbler began to turn on my first one

i'm sure you remember your first success. I repeated it a few times until i was certain i could visualise what exactly was going on inside the lock, and by the end i could open each of the doors in a minute or so.

Anyway, i've been lurking on the forum for a few weeks and would like to thank all of you who give usefull tips/advices. Keep on picking!

by **Birdflyer** » 22 Jun 2005 16:50

Hello! Hmm, well, I live in sweden and Im 19 years old.

At some random talk @ IRC a guy mentioned something about that he had some ebooks about lock picking but was too lazy to learn more about it, but when I heard about that, I was already at google find more about it, and I found some nice reading there.
Well, that was 3 days ago and Ive bought a Beginner set of the most common tools (I guess ^^) for picking locks (Havnt arived yet).
But well, I couldnt wait for those tools to come so I started right away with a screwdriver and a safety pin and got my first lock opened ^^ I had so much fun with this so even at the beach with some friend I was just trying picking locks :]
Well, lockpicking is really something that has caught my interest.

So well, just found this nice forum and I think Ill be stuck here for a time now :]

Ive already found very nice and usefull reading here in this hour Ive known about this site.

Hope my tools come soon so I can get started for real :]

And once again, you cant understan how lucky I am I found this forum about lock picking :]
Have a nice day, and thx!

/ The very new Lock picker, Birdflyer

by **Santos718** » 22 Jun 2005 18:53

Welcome!!!

by **Spry** » 23 Jun 2005 0:31

I'm pretty new to picking, even though I am horrible at it I still find it fun and am gonna stick with it.
This community seems pretty big, with a lot of good information, I'm glad I stumbled across it.

by **TheBlackPope** » 23 Jun 2005 21:33

Hey, I'm new here.

by **Santos718** » 23 Jun 2005 21:48

Santos718 wrote:Welcome!!!

by **oaksy** » 24 Jun 2005 3:09

Just would like to say hello guys it is a great site i have been looking on it for along time...thought it was about time i login...
Regards
Oaksy :wink:

by **nightscooter** » 24 Jun 2005 23:45

I used to rekey locks, and got interested in picking. Actually, I started by opening two combination locks that I no longer had the combinations to. I decided today to try to pick some padlocks that I had in a drawer. I don't have any tools yet, so I attempted with a small screwdriver and a paperclip as a pick. After reading some of the post here, I tried it, and actually opened the first one in about 15 seconds. It must have been luck, because I have not been able to open anything since. Anyways, great site, lots of excellent information.

by **funky__monk** » 25 Jun 2005 1:00

i just joined a couple of days ago but ive already found some pretty useful stuff

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