*sigh*
The thing you are forgetting though, is that larger tanks have the inherent quality of having a lot more room for error in them. They are safer by far than small ones, and beginners have no business doing anything unsafe since they'll have enough problems.
As for your snappy comeback to Damon, yes, you do have to know these things for both large and small tanks. However, in a larger tank you actually have room to put that info to actual USE. Coral placement factors of flow and lighting/height are vastly easier to account for in a tank with some room in it. Wit nanos, you're just stuck with what you've got pretty uniformly throughout the tank. Corals fight, too, and exude, and spacing them correctly is again a lot easier if you have the space.
A nano limits your ability to do things correctly, plain and simple. You can do things acceptably well in a small tank, of course, but your choices will be greatly limited as a result, since fewer species can work together well in such close quarters. So yes, if you limit your selections to such species, and if you know what their specific needs are, and if you take the time to place them correctly to meet those needs, then you can succeed with a nano tank nearly effortlessly.
So, then...how many beginners are going to know these things? Not many.
I'm sick of this recurring argument. Nanos and novices do not mix. Period. There are exceptions to every rule, sure, but there's a very good reason that they are rules in the first place.
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