Normally newbies who just join this forum are been attacked by those that have been here for long and secondly the rules and guidance and where to post and not to post and gaining merit .
Honestly i don't count all these as part of the problem a newbie faces on this forum because most of this newbies know nothing about the forum and care less of reading the forum's rules and regulations before making mistakes that get them banned, corrected or accused and it's very common that you see a newbie accepting confrontations from experienced members because they also want him to take heed to those aspect they are correcting them on and not that they dislike them or acted to scare them away from the forum, if a newbie never made a mistake, he won't be corrected.