(I was a newbie once so i'm not bein a hypocryte...)
We say for them to read the guides, then 5 seconds later they say that they tried to read it and it was confusing.
Then they keep asking questions like there's no tomorrow.
When I first started I was overwhelmed by how much I had to learn. A year and a half later I'm still learning things by almost a weekly basis (mostly minor things but still, yknow?).
I'm sorry to say but it's partly the senior guys' fault, myself included, that newbies are how they are. Some of them are really trying to learn and try hard and of course there are the others who are just friggin lazy and just want a straight answer...
So maybe the guides are not enough. ErMac's guide is good but since he knows everything it's hard for him to put himself in the newbie's shoes.
My suggestion is that we have a few members come together to put together a guide rather than just one person. One person can't cover EVERYTHING a newbie wants to know no matter how hard he thinks.
Yet at the same time we don't want to waste too much energy for newbies just cause they don't know a thing. ErMaC, I see many problems in your guide that can easily be fixed, such as version mistakes and lack of information. So maybe you can either update it like on a more frequent basis or let someone else do that for you.
Just a little something I was thinking late at night when answering a few questions. Yout all may completely disagree, but I want you to think more about what a newbie goes through.



