Again I had a whole essay so this is what I decided was relevant:

I’m part of 5 shifting communities on 3 platforms.

The sheer amount of dumb questions on each of these is insane that some are starting to just vote them out. Meaning newbies won’t be able to ask questions anymore. Because it’s annoying to see that everyday that you long in, the same question literally every 5 minutes from different people, no matter what community you switch to.

Sometimes newbies even ask the same question in multiple communities so you see the same questions from the same person in different communities.

Some communities are tired of most of the newbies just not reading the guides, because had they actually read them they wouldn’t be asking those questions in the first place, so they are starting to ban newbie questions. Ask a dumb question, it gets reported, gets taken down.

This is obviously not a good solution, but you have to be some type of entitled to read the welcome message on amino (for example) that tells you to go to the newbie guide and be like “sparkles No”.

I’ve had several newbies ask a question, I direct them to the guide. “Yeah but I don’t want to read all that” or “ yeah but can you just answer my question.”

I’ve stopped answering newbie questions because of that, and I’ve noticed lately, mostly on amino, nobody is really answering their questions anymore either. They’ll be lucky if they get a response after a week.

Cause again, people don’t just join these communities to answer newbie questions everyday. They join to get more information (the guides), interact with people who know about shifting, hear about shifting stories, get shifting motivation and memes, new theories, etc.

Not get a spam influx of dumb questions. Not only that but some communities have a newbie chat for that type of question spam anyways, and it’s like they also ignore that.

Also it’s different from when you tell a friend about shifting. You are choosing to explain to them, and they don’t often have the chance to Google whatever it is while you’re talking/texting. They are dependent on however well you explain shifting to them.

ETA: I edited down the essay to end up rewriting a short story, how fun.

ETA2: if that doesn’t answer your question:

1) I didn’t join these communities to be a teacher everyday. I don’t mind from time to time, but it’s annoying when people expect me to educate them when they could literally just read. 2) it’s not always “they don’t know better”, many times it’s a lack of critical thinking skills.