User blog comment:OtterJiang/How Toxic IS the VOCALOID Fandom?/@comment-26192563-20150418091141/@comment-53539-20150419225522

I once said that while newbies can be stubborn, for reasons... To be honest the most problematic fans are the vets. I gave someone a lecture once upon a time at the One Piece wiki about how a community needs a constant flow of newbies in to let it survive. I repeated this lecture here several times when I first came to this wikia. If a community bumps out too many newbies, you have issues. You need fresh blood to keep a community alive.

Newbies often bring experiences into the mix that they've already picked up, or, as an alternative, you can train them up to speed up what coding existence. Often templates amount to just replacing "X name" with "Y name".

A community that has no flow... I'm afraid will die. I kinda have seen this time and time again in every fandom I've been in. Sometimes you accidentally scare someone off, but you can't be sure how anyone will take your words, no are you psychic and can predict it. Someone can take a lot of replies to a topic the wrong way and feel over whelmed, others ADORE huge conversations on topics as it gives them encouragement to keep talking.

You pretty much summed everything up "human nature". :-/