After listening to a lot of "this game sucks *** because it's not EnB" and "what am I supposed to do in this game?" (not to mention the charming fellow who threatened to DDoS the servers with his zombie network), I'm not sure I want to deal with this on a daily basis.

The obvious solution is to restrict trial accounts to a limited set of channels, and experienced players can sit in on these channels (or not) as they choose.

Upside is that otherwise-disinterested players don't have to listen to flame wars in channel 100 caused by Trial Trolls.

Downside is that restricting trial accounts means that they don't have access to as much help from other players, and may not get as positive an experience (and hence choose not to sign up).

Opinions yea or nay?

simple. leave the trials on channel 1 only.

Problem with this is the fact that people won't get help from the experienced players. You will always have those people, and I would not have had nearly as much fun if I had not had access to channel 100. Unfortunately it seems that the rude people of the internet will have to be tolerated.