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My personal experience around noob is covered by the ones I found on ~~most~~ edit: the most high search-ranked online explanations: Mostly negatively conotated
by ketzu 5y ago
My personal experience around noob is covered by the ones I found on ~~most~~ edit: the most high search-ranked online explanations: Mostly negatively conotated, deregatory version of newbie. Often associated with people not sufficiently able to learn or at least not learning on their own.
Examples:
* https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/noob https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/noob
* https://www.etymonline.com/word/noob https://www.etymonline.com/word/noob
Examples not containing the negative connotation:
* https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/noob https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/noob
* https://neologisms.rice.edu/index.php?a=term&d=1&t=2471 https://neologisms.rice.edu/index.php?a=term&d=1&t=2471
It might be something used quite differently by two similar groups, so it is good to be aware that other people may use it the other way.
- b3morales 5y agoI often see people self-describe as noobs when asking technical questions, for example in programming Reddits. I couldn't say that I understand the reason for it, though.
- cratermoon 5y agoI've been around long enough and in enough circles that I have seen 'noob' go from mildly chiding to full-on insult. It used to be that in some communities, being referred to as a noob was a sort of "hey check out the new guy" ribbing. A noob was just someone starting out, a neophyte. It was the impatient and rude who later decided that being a noob was a bad thing.