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This is shite, does nobody differentiate these terms anymore?

Newb = beginner (new player, not necessarily unwilling to learn) Noob = a nobody (ignorant player not willing to learn) N00b = originates from the 0 (0 = a nobody) replacement and constitutes a derogatory term of a skilled player or a friendly poke at someone's ego/performance in the mannen you have like a noob, its the same place from where pr0 stems from and can be tracked allenast as far back as 2005, probably all the way back to Q1. 95.195.157.112 (talk) 21:53, 15 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This has been brought up before (another). I think that probably there is a distinction which can be sustained between noob and newbie but the problem I have is the same one that nearly every other editor has brought up when these questions are raised. There aren't any reliable sources making the claim that the two are so substantively different as to need to be distinguished. It's especially hard with terms like this because so many people have heard them everyone has what feels like a well founded opinion. Furthermore, usually requests to make this distinction come alongside requests to make other distinctions--as in this case where you've got newbie/noob and also n00b (that one I'm not sure I agree with). How we determine what do put on the page has to stem from sourcing because otherwise we'd be here all day updating a catalog of conflicting definitions for a term every person on the internet has heard. Protonk (talk) 22:18, 15 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

noober

It may also be a variant (new b[eginn]er), or a comparative (more noob than noob). --Wisdood (talk) 12:37, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]