Just ONE of my amazing and brilliant forum posts:

"Maybe noobs could first spawn as fruits of a noob tree, and ripen in a few minutes. Then they'd drop to the ground, but still be very small and undefined. Over the course of a day or two they'd gain abilities - at first they'd just roll around and have no inventory. Once they had been inworld for a few hours they'd have an inventory and be bigger - they'd be able to move faster but still wouldn't be able to affect grown residents much.

Grown residents would gain by helping nooblets, as measured by the nooblets choosing to give them rating points (one per nooblet). Each rating point would count towards a rl trinket, like, say, an SL keychain for 5,000 points. Negative ratings would be added together, too, and anyone with a negative noob rating balance would be automatically muted for all noobs. After a certain amount of time inworld the noobs would be "done" and be able to do anything."
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Ha ha! I write these things then make myself laugh when I stumble across them: so fully independent am I that I function as both writer of drivel and appreciative audience for the selfsame drivel! And this post was preceded by one where I wanted noobs to enter pneumatic tubes to be whisked away like sales slips in an old fashioned department store!

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