Well, no matter where you put them, they'll still start as newbies. You can't change that. There are plenty tutorials and whatnot on the forums, and the 'Welcome to Discovery' commodity does link them to them. There is also the Rule commodity, which explains briefly what the server is all about. Not to mention the various console messages, that remind them of the rules and all.
If you want to filter the utter clueless players (and by that I mean those who cannot properly communicate in English), you must password the server, and guide them to the forums. Hell, on some RP communities, you had to take a basic RP/rule test in order to gain access to the game. I'm confident Cannon could develop something like that, if he wants to.
People might say this could drop the server base, but hey, aren't these guys whining all day about lolcaps and crap ? You know who I'm talking about... not gonna get into it.
