I'm working on it, but you have to admit they are extremely long. They're several years of content and not all of them are easy to internalize.

I understand that joining (and more importantly becoming accepted in) an (online) community should require some effort. You don't join /r/HPMOR without having read at least a couple of chapters. You don't join a Magic: The Gathering or Dungeons and Dragons forum without at least knowing a little bit about the games.

But more importantly, I think, isn't the effort that preceded joining the community. It's the commitment to improvement that matters. When you join a baseball team, you're not judged on your ability to throw or hit a ball, you're judged on your willingness to come to trainings and observe the games your team plays.

So having the Sequences as (part of) a rite of initiation is okay, but there would need to be some system of support to help newcomers through them.