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This is copied (entire) from http://www.adisc.org/forum/showthread.php?p=11941#post11941
Good for you Pramrider. Part of the problem is the rate of new posts; I have given up trying to keep up with many threads, even some forums. Some people ignore the greetings threads as they simply have limited time to spend here. I try to say at least something to new people, though it is often slight. Therein lies another reason greetings threads are often ignored: that they are often not very interesting. It is as boring to write, "Hi new person; glad you are here; hope you stay," as it is to read the same thing over and over. Some new people write a good intro. Many don't know what to say, so they don't say it. And some try to plunge into the fray with the kind of "stories" that are meant to say," I am one of you! I deserve some status or standing in the community because I told my parents and they are ok with it!! or my gf indulges me etc." - And are probably shocked, or at least disappointed when they are met with derision and skepticism.
I suggest we form a greetings committee - you and me as founding members.
With, say 10 gc members, if one or two of us are away, the others would make sure the newbies do no go ungreeted. The replies of the gc members would contain a brief paragraph about the gc member, and some questions to the newbie; this would be a good time to introduce forum rules, etiquette, and other info, such as pointers to the kind of standard info that might be stored in wiki but "put" under the noses of the newbies.
Where it says member (I mean regular) or vip etc. we could have the title "greeter."
We would need a storehouse of little paragraphs to feed the newbies. I don't think having 10 pages of rules, system of government, who's who, punctuation and spelling etiquette, forum features etc. as required reading before a member can join in would work. "TL;DR would appear and defeat the purpose. Greeters would have to literally be on the same page so as to give the newbies consistent and useful information. Maybe we could stop some of the drama in its tracks. Maybe we could get newbies to post a bit more. We would be guides and mentors... We could handle some things, and pass others, as required, up to the mods.
The little paragraphs could be in a sticky (where they would add up to the aforementioned 10 pages) or on the wiki - or both. One such thread would consist of exemplary greetings from the past as instances of how to write - or not - a really good greeting. We might need a new sub-forum where gc members could go to coordinate their efforts, work out policy, take suggestions, cooperatively work out which info to feed newbies and so forth. The first thing is to get volunteers to be greeters.
Good for you Pramrider. Part of the problem is the rate of new posts; I have given up trying to keep up with many threads, even some forums. Some people ignore the greetings threads as they simply have limited time to spend here. I try to say at least something to new people, though it is often slight. Therein lies another reason greetings threads are often ignored: that they are often not very interesting. It is as boring to write, "Hi new person; glad you are here; hope you stay," as it is to read the same thing over and over. Some new people write a good intro. Many don't know what to say, so they don't say it. And some try to plunge into the fray with the kind of "stories" that are meant to say," I am one of you! I deserve some status or standing in the community because I told my parents and they are ok with it!! or my gf indulges me etc." - And are probably shocked, or at least disappointed when they are met with derision and skepticism.
I suggest we form a greetings committee - you and me as founding members.
With, say 10 gc members, if one or two of us are away, the others would make sure the newbies do no go ungreeted. The replies of the gc members would contain a brief paragraph about the gc member, and some questions to the newbie; this would be a good time to introduce forum rules, etiquette, and other info, such as pointers to the kind of standard info that might be stored in wiki but "put" under the noses of the newbies.
Where it says member (I mean regular) or vip etc. we could have the title "greeter."
We would need a storehouse of little paragraphs to feed the newbies. I don't think having 10 pages of rules, system of government, who's who, punctuation and spelling etiquette, forum features etc. as required reading before a member can join in would work. "TL;DR would appear and defeat the purpose. Greeters would have to literally be on the same page so as to give the newbies consistent and useful information. Maybe we could stop some of the drama in its tracks. Maybe we could get newbies to post a bit more. We would be guides and mentors... We could handle some things, and pass others, as required, up to the mods.
The little paragraphs could be in a sticky (where they would add up to the aforementioned 10 pages) or on the wiki - or both. One such thread would consist of exemplary greetings from the past as instances of how to write - or not - a really good greeting. We might need a new sub-forum where gc members could go to coordinate their efforts, work out policy, take suggestions, cooperatively work out which info to feed newbies and so forth. The first thing is to get volunteers to be greeters.
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