Newbie vs Purest

I really hate purest in technology world. They attack any confidence a newbie is using to try a product. It is just like freshman initiation. For you to respect the people that have been around, we had freshman go through some embarrassing stuff for force a type of "right to passage." This is how purest try to control newbies. A purest believes that only hard work and effort to figure out a product is just fine and necessary. If the person doesn't "get it," they are just not trying hard enough or didn't read the instructions. Then when people are having trouble, "Why change." "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," "No risk is always the best choice." "If we change, it will only cause more headaches for everyone.

I believe a focus on usability can fix this. It forces our actions to make newbie's a customer.

Definition of a Purest:

1. Having a homogeneous or uniform composition; not mixed: pure oxygen.
2. Free from adulterants or impurities: pure chocolate.
3. Free of dirt, defilement, or pollution: "A memory without blot or contamination must be . . . an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment" Charlotte Brontë.
4. Free of foreign elements.
5. Containing nothing inappropriate or extraneous: a pure literary style.
6. Complete; utter: pure folly.
7. Having no faults; sinless: "I felt pure and sweet as a new baby" Sylvia Plath.
8. Chaste; virgin.
9. Of unmixed blood or ancestry.
10. Genetics Produced by self-fertilization or continual inbreeding; homozygous: a pure line.
11. Music Free from discordant qualities: pure tones.
12. Linguistics Articulated with a single unchanging speech sound; monophthongal: a pure vowel.
13. Theoretical: pure science.
14. Philosophy Free of empirical elements: pure reason.

Definition of a newbie:

Newbie is a slang term for a newcomer to an Internet activity, for example online gaming. It can also be used for any other activity in whose context a somewhat clueless newcomer could exist. It can have derogatory connotations, but is also often used for descriptive purposes only, without a value judgment.

I hope you can see how one will conflict with the other.