Hi, I was one those actually pushing the Newbie forum in the archive. The reasoning was that such Newbie forum seemed helpful for newbies at a first sight but actually risked becoming the ghetto for newbies and a (kind of) justification to be less friendly with them in the rest of Talk.

The will back then was to be friendly with everybody anywhere. I agree we should remind this to ourselves more often. If you think you have seen personal attacks these days you should have come earlier this year but this is of course no justification.

Talk is probably getting in similar circumstances as any territory receiving a flow of immigration in a reduced period of time. I believe things will settle in the following months, with most discussions speaking about concrete things in your hands, as opposed to (still) a big % of speculation.