Welcome messages - a suggestion
It makes the newcomer feel like a faceless package undergoing a process, along with countless others.
When the welcome committee can't even be bothered to "personalise" the message in any way, then the dehumanising effect is total.
For goodness sake, people, say something pertinent to the person. Make SOME response to the post they toiled over. "Hi, and welcome to the forum" is just insulting.
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I would presume they would also have a more favourable response to their sale thread as well.
Cough .. hint .. DUSTER .. cough .. splutter.
I suppose it does demonstrate to the rest of us that you've clearly mastered the art of Cut and Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste, Paste.
Rather than see the posts in this thread as wasted space, see them as a measure of the feelings of some of us that spend a lot of time here.
I logged in this morning to see two pages of cut and pasted welcome messages from JudithAnn. It's ridiculous. 21 posts to welcome new members at one sitting, yet not much else from her.
In the past I have designed databases for a living so I do know how easy it would be to at least put all these posts at the end of the list instead of at the top.
My personal preference is to get rid of them all together.
David:
https://pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/barrieforbes
https://www.flickr.com/photos/189482630@N03/
Hi and Welcome to the Forum David!!
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Kent
Why do we have to clutter this forum with welcome messages, especially when the user being welcomed hasn't even logged in for some considerable time.
I almost exclusively use the 'New Posts' method of viewing posts and I find it very frustrating when another member has logged in purely to create a whole raft of welcome messages bringing old posts back into the new posts category.
A number of members only seem to login to post welcome messages by the bucket load.
My suggestion is to post welcome messages in the users gallery, thus removing them from otherwise interesting topics.
Another suggestion to those users that log in only to welcome newcomers is:- "Please log in more frequently and welcome fewer new users at one sitting", then we won't get so many old posts as new.
Rant over.
Well I think Judith Ann just proved this point