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And being beginner-hostile by omission is very revealing of the community’s values.
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Beginner apathy is far more common than beginner hostility. Never actually seen beginner hostility.
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Do you know ’s concept of the Help Vampire? It’s a dynamic that leads to beginner hostility: slash7.com/2006/12/22/vam
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that sounds like a problem created by beginners though? Not an intentional program of hazing or something?
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At first. But it kicks off a cycle where in-group members withdraw from beginners and feel hostile towards them.
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esp since if it really matters, that's the moment paid teaching emerges as an activity

