The barrier between veteran and new role-players

I think its dumb that people won't give established communities a chance. There are some tight knit forums of larger sizes contrary to popular belief.

I have to say that on some forums, 'cliques' are indeed a problem. That's why welcoming and new member helping is so important.
On this site, there isn't that problem really. It's a nice open community. But on one of my other forums, I'VE stopped roleplaying because of 'groups' of people that band together and push other people out. And I've been on it over 3 years.

So understand the reasoning, but still think sites should be given a chance.

Big crowds seem to scare a lot of people.

It's sad that not all forums do that. -_-

The problem there really is that they enter an rp in which they know nothing about and no one want to help explain whats going on. Thats why I like TENO. I joined and had help to understand what was going on.