I gleefully help out players with content. SE already implements plenty of rewards in place for those of us who help newbies (from more tomes to wondrous tails rerolls), so it's moot in that sense.

I refuse to become a mentor as the chat is a disaster on every server I've been on.

To give an example, I was a "returner" about 2 months ago, intending to get back into a groove pre-SB, so I naturally was in the chat. I was often the one answering genuine newbies, because most actual mentors could care less. I often saw the chat degrade into long-winded and heated meta arguments when a sprout asked about gear and rotations (my fav was the one that lost his mind when myself and two others pointed a fledgling tank to Vit gear.) Othertimes it was just uncomfortable, players being gross and offensive, but not enough so to garner a report.

But then there were moments where players would gladly sit down and teach very useful tricks to others.

Essentially, it isn't all bad, just MOSTLY bad... I got so fed up after a couple weeks I left the Network and basically play mentor to my FC.