Quote Originally Posted by Hash_Browns View Post
A crown isn't needed to help new players, you know?
I always see this statement or a variation of it trotted out every time mentors get brought up, and it's poor reasoning. Technically it is true, but it is also a lot easier to provide help to new people with the crown than without it. Without the novice chat that the crown provides, one would have to maintain one's own friends list and/or linkshell to communicate with new players if one didn't want to rely on finding and chatting with new players via /search and /tell or just happening upon them. The crown gives access to an easy way to both communicate en masse with novices and provide access to the same service to those novices.