Everything VJ said above is true, and if I might add, "newbie friendly" might be a bit of a misnomer. It means we will give you the time of day, enough to properly screen, not necessarily that we will be all that "friendly" about it. We are not friends until we become friends.
Majority of gents that have presented themselves to me as "newbies" have been LE, men who have been previously blacklisted, men who have been previously arrested, men who for various other reasons cannot pass screening, men using another man's info for screening - only a handful have been actual bonafide newbs.