This applies mostly to RP (intensive or semi-intensive) muds.
On a newbie-friendly mud, people should interact in-character with newbies, and draw them into the roleplaying in that game. I can find out all the ooc knowledge and syntax I want (mostly) from helpfiles and webpages. Once I get in the game, I want to get into the roleplaying, learn things in character, meet people, make allies and enemies. Nothing creates passion for the game as much as wanting to get back at somebody, so you can actually be newbie-friendly by being mean to newbies.
Sadly, the more RP intensive a mud is, the more people tend to just ignore new players.
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