Where's my salmon!?!?!?!
J/K Brad. "Ah feel your pain" as do most.
One potential outcome of that might be that all the misinformation you refer to would be all coralled together in that "new folks" forum or whatever it would be called - and if that is the only place to post then those who are inclined to will. So the misinformation is then funneled to those most likely to take it as face value or gospel truth.
I agree a lot of good basic info can be found in the forum-specific FAQs or by searching - and also agree as brought up by someone else recently the canned "Read the FAQ / Use the Search function" response can seem a little cold if that is the stock response every time (it is defintely NOT that way here and I love you all for that). But still . . i know what you are getting at.
Would that proposed forum then become one glut of threads titled things like "How many of you have snakes?" - would it make new people feel too much like second-class citizens?
No smacking down here - just weighing the considerations - have at it!
(EDIT: wow a lot of posts whiel i was writing that. In answer to earlier questions the most relaible way to make it happen would be by making it a function solely of # days registered.)