Not sure if this is the proper forum, but anyhoo...

I'm a noob 2/4 limit player (-3.4BB/hour over 60 hours, yuck) reading poker message boards to try to help improve my game. Then it occurred to me, why would +ev players even give advice? Or would they give incorrect advice?

I mean, it seems to me there are only two ways to make money at the game of poker. One way is by not playing it at all but rather being the one profiting from those who do (i.e. being the one collecting the rakes, or being the one who writes & sells books about playing the game, etc.). The second way is by playing the game itself but only in games that contain many players worse than yourself. I mean, if you only played in games that contain players as good as you are then the only one that is going to win in the long run is the one collecting the rake, right? But by giving advice to noob players (like myself) aren't winning +ev players simply making their life more difficult by making good games harder to come by? So much so that it would actually make sense to give bad advice?