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Re: Welcoming New Members
« Reply #15 on: 05 December 2006, 19:40:53 »
I agree, it made me feel very...er....welcome when I joined up  ;D How about having a gentlemans agreement that once a new member reaches say 20 welcomes, no more are posted?

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Re: Welcoming New Members
« Reply #16 on: 05 December 2006, 19:46:13 »
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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  :y ...but they wernt were they  :o

What some peeps do to get there post counts up  ;D

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


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Re: Welcoming New Members
« Reply #17 on: 05 December 2006, 20:54:50 »
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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  ::) :)
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Re: Welcoming New Members
« Reply #18 on: 05 December 2006, 21:00:44 »
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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! :D
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Re: Welcoming New Members
« Reply #19 on: 05 December 2006, 21:02:39 »
Theres quite a few people getting their post counts up by talking about people getting their post counts up :-?
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Re: Welcoming New Members
« Reply #20 on: 05 December 2006, 21:04:29 »
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Theres quite a few people getting their post counts up by talking about people getting their post counts up :-?

 :y (or just adding smilies)  :y
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« Reply #21 on: 05 December 2006, 21:06:17 »
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Theres quite a few people getting their post counts up by talking about people getting their post counts up :-?

 :y (or just adding smilies)  :y

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Re: Welcoming New Members
« Reply #22 on: 05 December 2006, 21:18:27 »
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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 :o...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 :D
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Re: Welcoming New Members
« Reply #23 on: 07 December 2006, 19:41:55 »
bttt to remind everyone ;)
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Re: Welcoming New Members
« Reply #24 on: 09 December 2006, 19:38:23 »
bttt

PLEASE STOP DOING IT  >:(
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Re: Welcoming New Members
« Reply #25 on: 09 December 2006, 19:43:05 »
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!

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Re: Welcoming New Members
« Reply #26 on: 09 December 2006, 19:50:13 »
Can you not make the Welcome area not count to post counts?
That would probably stop it  :-/
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Re: Welcoming New Members
« Reply #27 on: 09 December 2006, 19:53:43 »
Is there an easy way of locking threads after a week or so?
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Re: Welcoming New Members
« Reply #28 on: 09 December 2006, 19:53:55 »
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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  >:(
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Re: Welcoming New Members
« Reply #29 on: 09 December 2006, 19:57:55 »
Program newbie threads to self-destuct (or self delete) after one week ;D
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