Please do the following as the first wave of changes for implementing the Newcomer's Hall - I expect some tweaking to follow:
Create a Forum within the Europeian Station entitled "Newcomers' Hall" with the description "New to the forums? Get information and advice here!"
Move the
Newcomers' Handbook from its current location to the new Newcomers' Hall.
Create a sub-forum within the Newcomer's Hall entitled "Ask Questions Here" with the description "Have a question? Ask here and some know-it-all will answer."
Create a sub-forum within the Newcomers' Hall entitled "Europeian Patron's Club" with the description "A place for Patrons to assist newcomers."
Create a sub-forum within the Newcomers' Hall entitled "Newcomer Activities" with the description "Take part in our special newcomer activities - you may even be named Newcomer of the Month!"
We may roll some more things into this (e.g., Introduce Yourself) once it's set up and we've discussed it further - if you have any thoughts as admins, I'd love to hear them.
For now, please give me mod powers over everything in the new area, I'll delegate things out to more permanent, position based authority once it's fully operational.
Let me know if you have any questions or tweaks, I want this to be as effective as possible and I'm happy to tweak anything if you think it will work better a different way.