Welcome to WebmasterWorld!

Need some warmy fuzzy stuff...

[pageoneresults]

Just a reminder, please do be sure to Welcome our newest members when you are responding to topics. It does give a warm fuzzy feeling for all. :)

[rogerd]

That's advice that can apply in any community. There's nothing nice for a new member than to receive some friendly welcomes. (A batch of welcomes certainly beats a bunch of flames!)

[phranque]

i try to offer a welcome to newbies even if i don't have a good response to the particular question posted...

[rogerd]

That's a good way to bump an orphan post, too.

[Receptional Andy]

What would be very nifty is an auto-welcome link. Something like [welcome] perhaps :)

That would save me some copy-and-pasting anyhow ;)

[jdMorgan]

Yeah, but an auto-welcome isn't any more warm or personal than what you get at the front door of Wal-Mart.

Jim

[Receptional Andy]

I think you misunderstood. I meant a code (e.g. [welcome] that would create a link saying welcome to webmasterworld [webmasterworld.com].

At the moment I keep fiddling around looking for the URL. It occurred to me that there might be more welcomes if this step was easier.

[rogerd]

You can put some custom code in your profile that would let you copy your welcome message in quickly. Not quite as easy as a tag, though.

(Still, I can probably type "Welcome to wmw" faster than I can hunt around for special brackets...)

While an automated welcome to a forum will never take the place of a personal one, I wouldn't discount the possibilities of well-written automated messages. On one forum, I get about one email a day saying "thanks" for an automated birthday greeting. Occasionally these are quite effusive. In one case, the member said we were the only ones who remembered!