I came to this forum with little to no idea of what I was doing. The one thing that bugs me is we rarely get to hear the resolutions of these people's various problems. I remember when I would hit all sorts of weird issues on my yellow teg for the most part throwing myself on the mercy of my older brother and his expertise usually got me through it but i tried to post the resolutions even if they didn't come from the forum just so maybe one day it'll show up in google when someone has the same problem and make it easier for them to fix it without having the resources some of us do.
I feel like in general if we took more of a "lead the horse to water" approach we could improve the overall experience for new users. Rather than flaming or criticizing, show them the threads where their age-old sometimes stupid questions (best ebay turbo for d15b7 300whp?????) are answered... and that could possibly turn into them realizing "wow everything i need to know is already out there I just have to look"
Maybe I'm a dreamer but i think the actual quality people, and the ones we want to stay around (not necessarily the DBS of the world) will respond positively.
Personally I just want to see more build threads. I love working on my Hondogs almost as much I enjoy driving them and I like seeing other homebrew builds. I've learned a ridiculous amount from hours of scrolling through build threads even about cars and motors I don't really care about and I always work on my friends cars because I just enjoy seeing different ideas being brought to life.