Newbie literally means inexperienced newcomer though, and since they are new to TUS it's accurate.
I know, I personaly don't care so much about this, but I've seen more than one person complaining about this and I think "newcomer" sounds better. All words of all languages are different from each other, even synonyms have differences. That's the beauty of each word, each one has a different power, each one fits better depending on the situation.
I have never personally heard anyone say noob/newbie means unimaginative or not-so-good-graphics.
The comparison is about the depreciative potencial the words have. Of course Unimaginative doesn't mean newbie lol.
Clumsy and unimaginative, I could understand since a lack of experience can make one appear clumsy and inexperienced, and without experience it's hard to know the possibilities.
But what has graphics got to do with ones abilities lol.
I think these tags are not used fairly. I've seen many players complaining, deleting accounts and maps due to this tags. Many maps that people spent hours doing. You know, depending on your experience and the program you use to make maps, you can spend hours, and hours, days editing a map to receive a bad tag, okay some maps may not have the best graphics, but some are very well tested, very funny, but then they receive a tag like that, and no one notice the map. Some of the WMDB tags are not very used like the one "sprites" and "open" for example. But the bullying ones, these ones they keep using. They tag maps they don't play. The ones tagging sometimes are not even very good on map making. So many aspects you could tag a map... If it is well tested, if it is well humored, if it has a story written in it, etc. For me it is a complete bullying system.
You know, even ALLMUSIC, ROLLINGSTONE very rarely rate artists with less than 3 stars, because there is no point for rating bad every album you listen. You know, as a reviewer you may prejudice the carreer of musicians. And in WMDB even the ones that make their first maps keep receiving these bad tags. This is not a stimulus for people beginning on map-making.
People who make their first maps start with a very bad incentive. And the trolls will be more active with a bullying system. I've seen many Mole Shopper maps criticising WMDB reviewers, they simply make the map private (if they don't delete them) and ignore the criticism. Many years have passed and this only creates toxicity.
Still, there's no harm in changing it if a lot of people share this misconception.
Yes, that's what I think.