>Again, using Cyradia's examples in her thread, you can
>see at least one high level IMM (her) intentionally made no
>effort to learn new heroimm's names or engage with them on a
>human level to make them feel welcome and acknowledged unless
>they were useful to her.

I think this is a fair point, in that, there are several different strategies that higher imms have taken with newbie imms.

Some people have hung out with the newbie imms and generally tried to befriend them.

Some people are more of the strategy of needing to manage them and are more inclined to sit elsewhere, avoid direct contact, and snoop them to make sure they're not screwing anything up.

Some people are more inclined to ignore them entirely because their focus is on something else entirely. (This is usually me.)

There're advantages and disadvantages to each of these approaches. I think one of the big things you give up with the second or third approach that's very subtle is that you can't really influence the culture of the staff that way. You have to be part of the conversation to say something like, "Hey, I didn't want to know that DudeX is playing CharY, could you try to not mention that kind of thing?" and be taken seriously. It's different with people you're paying but I think it's hard to tell a volunteer that you're important enough for them to watch like a hawk but not important enough for them to socialize with and get respect for it.