I think a lot of people misunderstood my comment. I obviously understand that there are basic questions that can be answered by documentation.<p>But my point was that for any community to survive, it should be welcoming to newbies and have an environment where people shouldn&#x27;t be afraid to ask questions, even if they are &quot;dumb&quot; by some arbitrary metric. It&#x27;s also a good way to convince someone of using your particular framework, programming language, etc.<p>A newbie may ask why should I use X, and if experienced veterans of the community give set Y reasons to use it, I feel that&#x27;s way more convincing than &quot;RTFM scrub&quot;. It&#x27;s way less elitist too.