On average, the BSD community is quite a bit more clueful. Not because the Linux community is dumb, but because Linux is quite a bit more visible - Complete newbies are dramatically more likely to use a newbie-friendly Linux distro such as Ubuntu than FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc. (The BSDs seems to get more users who already have experience with Linux or commercial Unices.)

Unfortunately, Linux newbies searching for help may run across bad advice from people with barely more experience, creating a feedback loop.