LOl, are you kidding?  It's rough even more older members!  It's an aggressive, competitive, sometimes mean-spirited forum, and I think that has a lot to do with how much scamming goes on here.  People get stick of having to constantly walk among pickpockets, and it makes them a bit prickly.

For noobs?  Yeah, it takes time to become established and it's hard.  Sometimes it seems as though most newcomers are just out to either scam or to post nonsense.  It's definitely harder on them, but most of them are deserving of whatever hazing they get.  Most, not all.

There's that phrase again.

And again.

And again.