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lolz hi guzx wasup i ma n00b lozl!!

^Not a newbie?

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Perhaps a list could be constructed to clear the confusion. However, that could also lead to more tension in the community...

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Perhaps a list could be constructed to clear the confusion. However, that could also lead to more tension in the community...

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A list would only aggravate the debate between those that were insulted at either being on or left off the list. Also it would depend uon whether this was a list of oldbies or newbies.

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From the Wiki:
[/b]Leet finds its base in written communication over electronic media. Most simply, it has evolved as a way of forming exclusive cliques in on-line communities, notably Bulletin Board Systems and online multiplayer games (see Examples of Leet in videogaming).

The mechanism began simply: taking standard text and corrupting it with a dynamic cipher, with only those privy to the cipher understanding what was being conveyed in the ciphertext. Through this, newcomers to a given community were excluded from communication with those who had defined (and continued to evolve) the cipher.[/b]

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Originally written by Alorael:

If you have to ask, you'll never know. Getting personally insulted by certain Spidwebbers before you've even arrived in a topic is a good sign.

—Alorael, who always hopes that one day he'll find himself insulted by people he doesn't know on a board on which he's never posted.

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