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 .
I think newbies suffer from imposter syndrome especially because of the difference in rank and they see every criticism as an personal attack, not realizing that everyone is equal on the forum. The older members are not entirely innocent in this, if you have been a member of this forum for half a decade or more, you will have seen most of the posts by newbies being repeated time after time and eventually that would get on anyone nerves, some older members snap at newcomers who make honest mistakes on the beginning but it’s all a part of the forum. Like LoyceV would say, “to survive in bitcointalk you have to grow thick skin”.