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>You punish
>you disincentivize people
I'm not sure who the "you" is. Maybe a specific person, maybe Bernds on this board, maybe chanpeople in general. I'll pretend the last case because the post started out about
>imageboards
So.
People irl does that all the time, no matter if they know the subject or not. It has to be taken into consideration that the less someone knows, the more he believes his knowledge is sound, and the more one learns, the more he sees how much he did not know previously, and can guess that how much he still does not know. And then those who mastered the topic can arrogant or not depending on their temperament.
On IBs people frequently generate arguments, some contradicts others just to troll them, some are just contrarian by nature, some has the "someone is wrong on the internet" mentality, etc. And they go into nitpicking too. Reasons are many, since all kinds of people can and do use imageboards.
I don't feel that IBs are special in this regard, as I started I think irl is similar.
>those who want to learn are ostracized
Shouldn't those who want to learn ask questions?
I always seen rude, arrogant replies (not answers) to questions on quicker boards, until someone answers in earnest. Those bashing type of comments are made by those, who: 1. just want to hurt OP; 2. is curious about the answer and want to bump the thread (being rude on IBs is common); 3. OP himself bumps his thread like that (he doesn't want others to think he selfbumps the thread, so pretends to be others, rude people).
But in the end, someone will reply with the best of his knowledge, and OP can learn, or directed towards some other place where he can gain knowledge.

As I mentioned few lines above, being rude is a common occurrence on IBs. Maybe for the fact that many Anons gets their social norms on 4chan/b. But the anonymous format of imageboards also guarantees harsher replies. It is told over and over: chans aren't hugboxes. If you use them, you need a bit tougher skin to avoid getting hurt (hurting yourself). During the many years, I meself, I frequently thought, fuck this shit, but then I let the fumes go away, and now it's quite easy to step over the bs.