I just told him that looking on wiki and other guides would give him much better answers than here. And our answers would simply be copy-paste of such guides.
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No.
A newbie come pretending answers and help without even thinking about doing the homework and read some faq and guides where he would find a better answer than what we can give here on forum.
Adoption? It require people that want to adopt it, not people spamming the forum just cause they have a POST button
Your first post would be correct if you said something like "You should check out the wiki or these guides (insert links), they're pretty helpful and should answer a lot of questions". Instead your answer more or less calls the OP stupid for not immediately finding the right places to learn about bitcoin. We were all stupid in the ways of bitcoin once.