Newbies

One thing I notice using different sites on the web for the range of interests I have, photography, plants, poetry etc, is the number of people who turn up on a site and expect immediate gratification on any issue they care to raise, without a thought of searching the archive, or lurking for a bit or buying a magazine/book and gaining a little experience/expertise. It's no wonder those with experience get driven to distraction by having to repeat the same advice or keep directing people to newbie pages or forums.