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 .
They're getting attacked because they're spoiling the forum we love, you can't just register on a platform and start writing the way you feel like writing, making the forum look like some childish social media and think you'll get away with it. The newbies should make it their first priority to read about the forum, visit the rules and regulations threads and get familiarize with the forum before they start posting. There's nothing wrong in asking questions on how things work here before you start writing when you can find the right sources to get you to understand how the forum functions. When you ignore all that but starts spamming or using the forum in a wrong way then you'll get attacked.
Not every newbies has been attacked on the forum, we have those that has been welcomed very well with lots of merits due to the values they're adding to the forum with their contributions. We're not saying all newbie should be like them but atleast put some efforts into your writing and the way you reply to threads. When a newbie register on the forum and immediately starts spamming around in an attempt to increase his activities he'll get attacked. It's left for he newbie to take corrections instead of feeling attacked. At some people we hard our own fair share of the attacked but took them as correction instead of feeling offended, they should do the same and they'll enjoy their stay here.