different between middie vs midbie

English

middie (plural middies)

mid +? -bie, after newbie.

midbie (plural midbies)

(Internet) An intermediate user or player.
- 2008, Tom Boellstorff, Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human, Princeton University Press (2008), ?ISBN, page 125:
  As persons spent more time in Second Life, their newbie status would fade and they would become known as residents, players, participants, or even "midbies." Midbie status was shaped not just by the absolute amount of time since the creation of an account, but by the cumulative amount of time spent inworld.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:midbie.

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