Agreed; it'll be easier to mainly disregard the newbie noise if it's in a different site instead of the newbie forum on this site. Is this slated to be a de facto replacement for the newbie forum, or will it only be taking some of the traffic? (And if so, what rule-of-thumb is to be used to sort what posts belong to which?)

(I like to help newbs (when they need help), but feel it's better for me to duck a lot of stuff in the newbie forum entirely; I'll meet up with anyone actually asking interesting or new questions eventually anyway, but I maintain lower blood pressure, and the forums are less scary for newbs. Win-win!)