"The same thing I do to a fellow student that is having trouble with their latest assignment: point them in the right direction, but don't tell them what to do."
In my experience - there is only one problem with this:
* people start cussing at you for not helping them (helping them to them means doing it for them)
* people start whining, flooding, yelling, making a fool of themselves and then complain when you forcibly remove them from an IRC channel
* people start complaining to others about you and your channel
And that's all if you're lucky. Wouldn't be the first time they'd start nuking you offline as well.
