Why do we laugh at new people for asking legitimate questions?  Were they supposed to have read the forums a thousand feet deep and figured this out on their own?

They should be laughing at us for having a 50 million dollar "economy" around a website that still doesn't have SSL after all this time, and a program whose user interface is so dinky and devoid of help that it wouldn't even make the Apple App Store as a free app just for its complete lack of intuitiveness alone.