Rant: I am just a newbie

[jmcilhinney]

True. There is a strong sampling bias at work here. For one thing, outside of Chit-Chat, almost everybody who starts a thread is confused about something. We never see the ones who are not confused, noob or otherwise.

So basically what we're saying is that too large a proportion of those who are confused are not prepared to make sufficient effort to alleviate their own confusion.