The recent time has been a great one for disco, regarding the influx of new players. However, I have noticed that some of them tend to disregard the basic No-Go's as a newbie, that Corile even listed. They create their own unofficial groups, completely unaware of lore or sometimes even basic game knowledge, those unofficial groups mostly look like a disaster we shake our heads at. Everyone should be able to do their roleplay, but please, set a rule for a specific time or amount of posts, a player has to have, before being allowed to make such a project.

This might sound harsh but it only is a self-protection, those people ruin their future images by being known as "this/those idiot/s that created x and y, which was a complete fail, pls remove". Instead, we should highly encourage joining the poor populated official factions that already exist. In the recent times, I got so many head-shake comments from friends that sent me links to such lolwutty threads. Don't punish them for doing it but just remove their threads and tell them about it.

What do you think? Should we restrict such factions to prevent a flow of hate towards the newbs that just wanted to have fun? Or should we just let them do their thing and handle it on their own?

I think that is a valid answer, we'll see how it turns out then.

But what about the extremely negative feedback and hate they get on the forums and the game for their plans? Wouldn't active negative experience within the game drive them off faster than something to prohibit it in the first place?

But you cannot sanction people for openly stating their opinions in a very negative way if the criticised material is actually awful as hell.