A Newb’s Guide to the TBP Lexicon

Submitted by: aka.attrition

This post is an update of the original “Noobe’s Guide” written by Ghost and El Coyote (EC) back in Feb 2020 – A Noobe’s Guide to the TPB Lexicon. An update was requested by Ghost and so here is a new version with some stuff removed, some added, something old and something new … or however the saying goes.

The original post was dedicated to some lumberjack guy (see Stucky) but I think the revised post should be dedicated to all the SFM on TBP. Plus, special mention of Ghost and EC without whom the original article would not have come to be.

A small change to the original article; these days it’s often not spelt as “noobe” with an “e” at the end but rather just as “noob” which rhymes with “boob”, but I digress. This is to differentiate it with a similar noun, “newb”, which also rhymes with “boob”, but I digress again.

The difference? A newb are those who are new to some task and are very beginner at it but they are willing to learn. A noob, on the other hand, often spelt with double zero as in “n00b” to add extra insult and reflect their level of skillz, know little and have no will to learn any more. They make up a unique sub-species of their own, “sub” being the operative word. It is the latter which is deserving of ridicule and mockery. Don’t be a n00b.

And … here … we … go …

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The State of TAE

After reading Raul’s post, I thought it could have been written by me.  TBP was banned by Google Adsense almost a decade ago. A half dozen other ad companies also banned TBP. We are left with 3rd tier advertisers. Donations are going to finish 2023 down about 20% from 2022. Times are tough for everyone and about to get tougher. So it goes. I’ll keep TBP alive as long as possible.

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(TAE=The Automatic Earth). I wanted to talk about some things at the end of this year. In early 2015 things changed for me. When Donald Trump announced his candidacy for President, the world of news acquired a whole new outlook. It’s one thing to not like, or agree with, someone or something. It’s quite another to go after it, or him, en masse with all you got and all of your friends. In the beginning, it seemed almost innocent. Because everyone was so convinced that he had no chance anyway.

As the year went on, that idea changed. Even though at the end, 17 months later, in November 2016, there were still plenty polls that gave Hillary Clinton a 90%-or so chance to win. It’s when I first started thinking that maybe we should adapt the approach to news at the Automatic Earth. It was no longer commenting on the news, but changing it completely. The Trump presidency was unlike any other. “They” were awake now. He remained under investigation non-stop for 4 years. Which is odd, because the Constitution invests a lot in the rights and privileges of the President.

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TBP JUST MISSED MAKING THE LIST

TBP around 1 million page views per month, and steadily shrinking.

Via ZeroHedge

These Are The 50 Most Visited Websites In The World

Estimates vary, but there are upwards of two billion websites in existence in 2023.

If we were to rank all of these websites according to their traffic numbers, we would see a classic power law distribution. At the low end, the vast majority of these websites would be inactive, receiving little to no traffic. On the upper end of the ranking though, a handful of websites receive the lion’s share of internet traffic.

This visualization, using data from SimilarWeb, takes a look at the 50 websites that currently sit at the top of the ranking.

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BLOG UPDATE

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It seems bloggers are having a harder time these days. Blue State Conservative closed up shop on December 31 after a couple years. I was surprised. The guys running the site came to me at their outset and asked for advice. I posted many of their articles and they posted my articles. I thought their site looked very professional and they had a good roster of writers. Madame DeFarge, one of their writers, has found a new home here. I don’t know why they shut down, but I do know running a blog 365 days per year isn’t easy.

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GOAL!!!!

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You extremely generous Burning Platform readers just pushed the donate thermometer to its goal. The $100 that pushed us to the goal was dedicated to our old friend El Coyote by a long time contributor.

Obituary of Juan Jose Santos

I’ve really been overwhelmed by the tremendous generosity of dozens of TBP family members. Times are going to get tougher. The danger is rising for those who don’t conform and bow down to the totalitarians in charge. I intend to make TBP a bastion of resistance, as long as the internet exists.

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BEWARE: EXTREMIST CONTENT

“It’s time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.” – Marcus Aurelius

This past weekend was a fascinating experience for someone who has spent most of the last fifteen months in his basement. Over the course of three days we experienced the best of America, celebrating the birth of our nation on a picturesque farmstead that could be the backdrop for a Norman Rockwell Americana painting. The seventeen hours of maneuvering through the interstates and back roads from Pennsylvania to New Hampshire, and back, were frustrating, eye opening, depressing and sometimes inspirational.

But, the nine hours spent on the farm with like minded friends, sharing thoughts about the past, present and future, downing a few cold beverages, eating fresh farm fare, watching the youngsters playing on trampolines, teenagers playing games and setting bonfires, and mingling with baby goats made the trek worth it. What I didn’t see was anyone tapping away on an iGadget. Just real down to earth folks chatting, joking, and enjoying each other’s company. Everyone feels welcome on Hopewell Farm, as Marc has created a paradise on earth over the last fifteen years, building a thriving farm – raising cattle, hogs, chickens, turkeys, and tapping the acres of maple trees to make the best syrup on earth.

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2nd Annual Burning Platform Independence Day Celebration

Guest Post by Hardscrabble Farmer

Okay folks, it’s that time of year again. We just started cleaning out the sap buckets in preparation for sugaring this year when it occurred to me that it was just around this time last year that we began to make plans for the 1st Annual Burning Platform Independence Day Celebration. Based on the feedback from last years participants as well as the interest from those who were keeping their powder dry to see if the first one was worth it, we’ve decided to do it again.

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THANK YOU

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As another year comes to a close, the 10th for The Burning Platform, I want to offer my thanks and gratitude to everyone associated with the dysfunctional family we’ve created on the interwebs. First, and most importantly, I want to thank TMWNN for his dedication and commitment to free speech. If he hadn’t rescued the site in May 2014 from a massive denial of service attack, you wouldn’t have seen five years of Wal-Mart freaks and thousands of Friday fails. As many sites that started in the same time frame have gone commercial and sold out to the mainstream fake news media, TBP has remained a bastion of free speech, sticking our finger in the eye of the Deep State.

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Join the Side You’re On

I have been mostly offline on TBP for nearly two years. I recently read an excellent article about journalism and its degradation and impact on the 2016 election. The full article is here.

The 2016 Election and the Demise of Journalistic Standards

If you don’t want to read the full article, fine. But these words may resonate with the TBP faithful.

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