Someone rage-quits SO every day. New users aren't "harassed", which implies a level of targeting that isn't really there. It's not "new users" that people are a

Someone rage-quits SO every day. New users aren't "harassed", which implies a level of targeting that isn't really there. It's not "new users" that people are annoyed with, it's "poor questions" and "oh there's a FAQ?!" and "oh you mean I could have Googled that?" that draws peoples' ire. I've taken multiple breaks from SO. Once because of a beef with a specific user that spiraled out of control on their side (he was ban-hammered for awhile because of it) but that's an outlier. Search the web: all sorts of people have had similar experiences and grievances. You hear about them because they post about it. It's a tiny fraction of users.