Any one on two wheels is a friend

That's a good idea.

(except for three weeks per year when it's open season on noddys)

It's not an idea. It's a statement. That's how it now is.

If anyone pounces on a newbie without fair cause, then someone can report it and I ban swiftly and without stopping to hear the pleas for mercy.

That's not to say that no newbie can ever be called out on, it's to say that for the vast majority of newbie baiting that has existed, that just won't now be tolerated. But when we do have the case of, say, a dumb bike thief trying to sell something or an obvious troll... then fair game, go for it.

The line will be, what the forum reasonably thinks is OK. Which will mostly be me listening to BDW on that, or the consensus of people who aren't inclined to report stuff.