Greetings!
Let make some discussion in rewriting 5post rules for newbie. This is my second!
If there will be some mechanism like karma, there may be much more less flood at newbie section.
I suggest, that if some one introduce new service or some thing for closed part of forum that looks great, moderator may move this topic to closed part and give to author some points, e.g. me need 100% to get closed part, one such post give me 33% when other flood post like this, only 1%?
And separating the Newbies section to the same parts of main forum will make reading/writing more efficiently.
Not too sure what on earth you're talking about, but we do have the whitelist feature for outstanding/vouched newbie users if needed. They can move their own threads/start a new thread at other places if needed.