Zodiark newlings chat is something you should avoid

[Marcman]

I spend a lot of time in Zodiark NN and the vast majority of time the questions, answers and discussions going on are nice and civil.
Like any other public space (ish) there will always be someone with a bad day or with an agenda to disrupt, but one can't let those rare occurrences alone determine that the chat is terrible or something to be avoided.

I wish that mentors that doesn't actively participate in the NN chat would get removed from the channel though, to make space for the ones that do participate and help. One typically sees the same smaller amount of people offering responses to things being said, and if these players can't get in because of mentors that doesn't chat have been auto joined in and are taking the space, then it might negatively affect the assistance given to new players and returners.
Simply disabling the auto join Novice Network should do the trick for that..

[Eien713]

I wish that mentors that doesn't actively participate in the NN chat would get removed from the channel though, to make space for the ones that do participate and help. One typically sees the same smaller amount of people offering responses to things being said, and if these players can't get in because of mentors that doesn't chat have been auto joined in and are taking the space, then it might negatively affect the assistance given to new players and returners.
Simply disabling the auto join Novice Network should do the trick for that..

This also annoys the hell out of me. Odin NN is filled to the brim with mentors, but you always see the same handful of mentors actually answering questions and engaging with newbies or helping out. All the other mentors are... just there.

On topic, during the time I've spent in NN, I've seen mentors kick people from NN 3 times, and 2 of those times were mentors drunk on power, as people would put it. In one of those 2 times, the mentor even did it as a joke (someone had posted the message: "Eff this. I'm out of here" by mistake in NN), but they got kicked themselves by another mentor immediately. The second time, a crafting mentor kicked someone who clearly posted a 4- or 5-line macro in NN by mistake. Anyone actually reading the chat would've surmised as much. This mentor was just a lurker that never ever interacted with anyone in NN and that the active mentors didn't know, and said mentor apparently left the NN soon after kicking the sprout. Like, the dude was a ghost in NN for God knows how long, and then the one time they decide to make their presence known, they kick someone for a mistake and after they had apologized? -.- People like the ones in these 2 examples are probably not willing to be real mentors, yet their actions affect all mentors' reputation, which really sucks.

All this said, the OP's story sounds like it might be lacking more background info and history for anyone to make a fair judgement. Sprouts/returning players are no angels either, and some of them can be annoying, rude, etc.