Bitcoiners, I've found, are some of the most introspective people around. They're willing first to examine their own beliefs first and make adjustments as new information comes to light.

After all the debate and the real world case studies, what is distilled are the basic heuristics you hear everyone parrot in the community. But the double edge there is that new noobs will pick those up and blindly run with them with no deeper understanding if you're too nice, which is why I think the toxic approach is actually better for long term adoption. Met with a wall of seeming animosity is better for the noob because it represents the edge of a dark forest of personal responsibility. Only the ones with real resolve will enter and are more likely to adopt Bitcoin for the long run.