It's meant to be optional, not mandatory.

 

In the past I have played on a few other servers that had the new members start in the tutorial, and I really enjoyed it, as it gave me the opportunity to know what exactly I can do in the server.

 

nice idea,
the most of new players dont care about going to tuturial even knowing that he exist.
if they were forced to start there they would have a easier start in the server and dont beeing always doing questions about simple stuff on chat all the time.
when I started here I had to go to tutorial more than 4 times to check some stuff againg or to see something I just forgotten. and it was very helpfull.

 

I know when I started I didn't go through the tutorial due to fact I didn't know it was there
Heck I still haven't gone through it