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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not putting down the un-helpable results in broad hatred of everyone who ever asks for help. bad boundaries.
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once you bring market forces in via paid education, "unhelpable" turns into "you flunked course, have an F"
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have you ever tried this with any success? the vampires won't help themselves, that's why they're vampires
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Umm. Isn't that what the entire formal education sector is about? Just needs time for fields to mature.
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Simplest example is people telling obvious high-school kids on Quora, "We're not doing your homework for you" etc.


