Welcoming New Members

[mijfife]

I agree, it made me feel very...er....welcome when I joined up   How about having a gentlemans agreement that once a new member reaches say 20 welcomes, no more are posted?

Cheers Jim

[Taxi_Driver]

I think the only welcomers are people desperate for posts, I was surprised Tunnie didn't do the lot

I think it shows we are a friendly community if we welcome new members in such a way.  But its a bit daft dragging up 3 month old welcomes....

Agreed   ...but they wernt were they  

What some peeps do to get there post counts up  

I half agree with Theo.....make the welcome area not adding to your post count  

[theolodian]

I think the only welcomers are people desperate for posts, I was surprised Tunnie didn't do the lot

I think it shows we are a friendly community if we welcome new members in such a way.  But its a bit daft dragging up 3 month old welcomes....

Yeah, that was me I'm afraid.    I was really cranky thanks to Autovaux and I think that was part of a spat with LB  

[Martin_1962]

I think the only welcomers are people desperate for posts, I was surprised Tunnie didn't do the lot

Or it could be people welcoming new members to the site of course

Not old threads though! :-?

As BoBo stated!

[STMO123]

Theres quite a few people getting their post counts up by talking about people getting their post counts up :-?

[Chopsdad]

Theres quite a few people getting their post counts up by talking about people getting their post counts up :-?

(or just adding smilies)  

[STMO123]

Theres quite a few people getting their post counts up by talking about people getting their post counts up :-?

(or just adding smilies)  

[MikeDundee]

A quick plea.

Whilst we all want to welcome new members and encourage them, just lately this seems to be getting a little daft, with new posts going on to very old welcome threads.

Can we try to refrain from welcomes on welcome threads older than around a week please?

Ta.

My sincere apololgies TB , and I am not going to use the excuse that I was half peed last night ...But I am glad I did because I found that post with that lovely avatar, so it was worth it, I just wish I'd found it earlier

[TheBoy]

bttt to remind everyone

[TheBoy]

bttt

PLEASE STOP DOING IT  

[Admin]

OFFICIAL WARNING!

If you drag up a welcome thread more than a week old, the Admins will take "appropriate action"  

This time we won't "play" with post counts, we will remove them permanently!

[Taxi_Driver]

Can you not make the Welcome area not count to post counts?
That would probably stop it  :-/

[CaptainZok]

Is there an easy way of locking threads after a week or so?

[TheBoy]

Can you not make the Welcome area not count to post counts?
That would probably stop it  :-/

Possibly.

However, we want people to give a nice friendly welcome to newbies, who may not have used a forum before, and it helps such people get the confidence to join in...

But we do not want the current ridiculous situation of members dragging up 4/5 month old threads welcoming people  

[STMO123]

Program newbie threads to self-destuct (or self delete) after one week