Just for your own information Grievre, (If you don't already know) the issue of initiations has be discussed to death. Repeatedly.<span style="vertical-align: super; font-size: smaller";>1,2,3</span>
And the entire forum doesn't automatically care for them either.
I myself don't terribly care one way or another. It seems like only about half<span style="vertical-align: super; font-size: smaller";>4</span> the incoming noobs get inits anyway. Unless, of course, they break Rule Number One<span style="vertical-align: super; font-size: smaller";>5</span> and create a new thread to introduce themselves in, resulting in either automatic init or DNI.
Why is this Rule Number One? Because if you start a new thread to introduce yourself (especially one with little or no interesting content) it makes you look like an attention whore without the courtesy to listen to what other people are saying before you start talking about yourself.
As for point #5, allow me to quote the Immortal Gord<span style="vertical-align: super; font-size: smaller";>6</span>:
The Gord wrote:
"Why are you such an ass!?"
"Because I hate you, and I'm smarter than you."
So that explains that.
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1. <a href="http://forums.kyhm.com/viewtopic.php?p=127576#127576">Yevaud's initiation meta-post</a>
2. <a href="http://forums.kyhm.com/viewtopic.php?t=5430&start=0">Founding of the COI</a>
3. <a href="http://forums.kyhm.com/viewtopic.php?t=2593&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=init+dni&&start=980">A number of posts in the intro thread about noobs, inits, DNIs</a> (I'm sure there are more)
4. Totally just guesstimating.
5. Not an actual board rule. More of a common-sense rule of thumb. But then most of the board rules here seem to be unwritten. Which is okay, most of the time.
6. <span style="color: black; background-color: black;">Yes, for those who didn't quite catch it: This is a JOKE</span>