I've tried saying it on Meta, but that place is not great for discussion: Newbies should help newbies. There are lots of ways to incentivize this, but the bas

I've tried saying it on Meta, but that place is not great for discussion: Newbies should help newbies. There are lots of ways to incentivize this, but the basic gist is that users who are just growing out of the newbie phase are in the best position to be indoctrinating new arrivals. They'll have the most patience and understanding, and it's an easy job that shouldn't be done by super experienced users. Most of this could easily be isolated to a newbie pre-stage too. Basically, a tutorial area in which new users work together to make their questions better so they can move on to the non-tutorial experience. Personally, I'd filter these posts out by default, but on days where I was feeling nice I might go in and help out. Worst case scenario: it takes some extra work from a newbie to get their first bits of rep.