I would actually suggest restricting them from joining a corp for the first month, since early on, they don't know WTF they are doing and could use the experience of a large pool of players (of many different stripes) to get their bearings in the game.

Most player corps are much smaller than most NPC corps, even accepting your premise that most of the characters in NPC corps are "not real" or whatever.

Most player corps are interested in teaching new players about HOW THEY play the game more than HOW TO play the game. And, when you're in a player corp, especially one in unsecure space, those other players in your corp can just kill you if you don't submit and conform to their playstyles. A newbie who can't fend off a ganker or griefer in high sec sure isn't going to have much to say 5-10 jumps into low sec or 30 jumps into null when one of his "superiors" tells him to do something he doesn't want to. You may not realize it, goon, but not everyone wants to be one of your peons, and forcing that on them might actually make them not want to log in or resubscribe.

Putting new players in a noob-corp exposes them to other noobs who they can interact with on a level playing field and maybe even learn from eachothers' mistakes and form social groups with. And, not all of the older characters are "throwaways" or cyno-alts. .

The guy is a moron with half the IQ of Gevlon. Gevlon's idea about creating an in-game version of EN24 that would introduce newbies to Eve culture is far superior to Mittens' stupid noob zone idea.

You are referring to this: LINK

And yes, he was banned for 30 days.