Thank you. I have to agree with you that posts like these could backfire, but I think it really depends on the writing style. Did you think my post was too agressive towards new members? I was going for educational/informative and admittedly, also a bit of an opinion piece. I always let my opinions shine through a bit in my articles.
Anyway, I think not all newbies are aware of doing anything 'wrong' and with 'wrong', I mean potentially harmful for their own reputation. People do talk about flagging these kind of 'spam' comments, which is quite harmful to new accounts.
Reading advice from older members might help them re-think their strategy.
I do want to hear people's opinion, otherwise I wouldn't post my articles.
Besides, I suck at discussions, so you're helping me learn here ;-)
Lol... Even I had no idea I could engage in a long discussion like this.