Minecraft is a popular game. MANY people own a copy and MANY people play it. First timers then see that there are servers that you can play on and try out one. He tries the different gamemodes only to discover that the games make no sense to him!

-Prison: First Timer:, "How do you play this?" -I hear this SO much on EVERY single gamemode!
-Factions: First Timer:, "What is this?" -2nd most common question!

I feel bad that so many new people have the opportunities to play all these fun games, but discover they don't understand any of them. For most of them, the instructions are extremely unclear and confusing! When I first got on the server, I was looking at all the people. They were having fun and KNEW what they are doing while I and many, many other people sat on the sidelines. We all ask, "How do you play this" and NOBODY answers!! It is very discouraging to get ignored and so I have an idea!

ADD TUTORIALS FOR GAMEMODES!
What I mean by this is, and I have seen these before on other servers, is where as soon as you enter the gamemode, lets say on factions, on the chat screen a note pops up that says something like, "for tutorial, type /tutorial factions. if you type it then you get warped to an island with tons of instructions including commands! This would be a big help to newcomers! **Note: If there are already detailed instructions for the gamemodes anywhere I apologize**