I don’t think our behavior at this moment is doing much to help new users either. It does feel kind of elitist.
Elitist?
Someone took the time to contribute to the forum over a period of weeks, and now I’m spending a bunch of time to help him out. But another guy just jumped in saying gimme gimme gimme and then called a regular a dick…and got his links anyway, and then called him a dick again. So if anything, we’re rewarding people for being lazy and rude…and so why should anyone be nice? Lazy and rude does just fine, apparently.
The rudeness is not OK, but the vast majority of new users aren’t here to build up a repertoire of contributions to this forum. They just want a cool project. Not everyone has to or wants to be part of this community.