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.
Well, it's not wrong or against the forum rules and there's no rules like that. We are free to post or feel like to write as long as the content is not low quality or spam then I don't see any problem problem with that but if it is the opposite then I agree with you. After all, we are free to do what we want as long as it doesn't cause problem or trouble to anyone here in the forum. I don't think that the newbies are being attacked (in a bad way) but I'd rather call it being criticized and when someone did it then it is for your own good to become knowledgeable in the future.