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Oops.
I came into that one late, so I must not have read the OP as thoroughly as I should have. There is a lot happening very quickly, here.
And the overall draw for me, to the game and the community, has been how tolerant is has always been to n00bs. I still see people talked down to in other games, as though they shouldn't bother "the big kids" with their questions. Granted, I tend to be trying out games when they become F2P, so I'm one of the n00bs intruding on the (ostensibly) established community, but I learned to look for a wiki instead of asking someone in-game. Watching an in-game discussion in CO of the CoH shutdown was particularly disheartening; it even got to the point where a RedName (or whatever they call admins) had to step in and remind everyone to play nice.
I'm not saying that we've changed that, here, but it is getting stressful, especially after the last announcement by NC. I have always seen people say what was on their minds without it causing a flame-war. It was becoming less so, and I just wanted to point it out while we still were all talking to each other.
I know it's not my place to police us or tell anyone, "Say what you want! Everyone is welcome." We have put that impression out there by our actions as a group, though, so say what you want. Everyone is welcome.