I have interacted with a few new user recently who are very disgruntled due to getting a lot of downvotes on there questions for been duplicates.

I don't downvote these myself but I can vote to close, so I feel I don't have to.

I think it may be very counter productive, the downvotes without the context of explaining why (the users are new, they don't understand duplicates) are annoying these users and some will not come back, no matter how much someone tries to explain after the fact.

Not all duplicates are obvious, especially to those without experience or technical knowledge. I think it would be good for these first timers to get an explanation of what they did wrong rather than just downvoting them in to oblivion.

I know this is a duplicate but it is becoming an issue again and I did not know how else to bring it back up.

I have interacted with a few new user recently who are very disgruntled due to getting a lot of down-votes on there questions for been duplicates.

I don't down-vote these myself but I can vote to close, so I feel I don't have to.

I think it may be very counter productive, the down-votes without the context of explaining why (the users are new, they don't understand duplicates) are annoying these users and some will not come back, no matter how much someone tries to explain after the fact.

Not all duplicates are obvious, especially to those without experience or technical knowledge. I think it would be good for these first timers to get an explanation of what they did wrong rather than just down-voting them in to oblivion.

I know this is a duplicate but it is becoming an issue again and I did not know how else to bring it back up.