I really hope new posters read these suggested guidelines, but I suspect they probably won't.

I really think that much of the arrogance we perceive in new posters who claim to have exciting new revelations is actually benign ignorance. It is often just a naive excitement that turns into anger when they hit the big nasty wall of peer review. Most people simply don't realize the truly enormous mass of legitimate research that exists on any coceivable topic. I deal with this a lot with my undergraduate students - they really think they've come up with something new, and I have to let them down gently when I tell them that there are 42 major books on the subject already. This happened to me when I was a freshman, and I always appreciated how nice my professor was about it.

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