As far as our newbie 'friend', I've dealt with a number of them who post links, probably using a search engine to grab links related to the subject, but they tend not to read the 'fine print' if they bother to read the link at all. Asking them to demonstrate they understand the content usually has the effect to turning over a rock and watching what is scurring away.
I probably wouldn't have bothered, but when a claim is made like 'some of us do this for a living', intimating they are one of that some as an appeal to authority fallacy, it was too good to pass up. What's even funnier, if n00b had demonstrated understanding instead of coming back with another link, I would been like: 'okay, know what you're talking about. Now lets have a discussion'.
I do share the one complaint he has. We had a Petersburg, AK, resident come on here a few days ago and defend Decoy Dan saying the story was completely made up and was a fiction created by Trump and Musk - and that he’d met Dan once. When I pointed out the New York Times published texts between Decoy Dan and Democrat party operatives and asked him if he’d bring it up with Dan if he ran into him again the response was, “back off noob!!”
Such a witty retort.