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The sad truth is that there are no good beginner communities, because even
if they start out with a decent core of experienced programmers to help the newbies, the inevitable flood of idiots incapable of searching and reading without their mommies holding their hands will either drown them out or cause them to leave.
At best, they devolve into a never-ending tragedy of the self-important blind leading the obnoxious blind.