User Introductions

Some sites do have "introduce yourself" sections or specific threads in their forums where users are allowed a post to do exactly that. Aside from making presences known, it may serve as an icebreaker, a means of learning how to use the forums, or to halfheartedly fill the absence of a bio section.

This site offers pretty robust customisable user profiles to explain or describe themselves for all to see. Profile pages make it a little more flexible. Blogs can be used for this, but aren't often, get few views, and definitely do not get featured. As for the bulletin boards, the only way I could see this happening is a (maybe stickied) thread in Miscellaneous. An entirely new board would be trivial and detract from the spirit of discussion. New users on this site grow accustomed fairly easily--owing to this site being relatively easy to use, whether it be by jumping into a chatroom or posting in a forum thread or penning a blog.

So while I maintain that a designated introduction medium isn't too important, there could be other ways to sate the matter. Similar to the birthday module, maybe a new users module which shows new accounts and resets on a daily basis. Considering the small community and modest rate of new accounts being created, possibly also little chatroom messages, e.g. "Welcome to SDK, [user]!"

Catch my drift.

The distinguished Android spake:

The distinguished Limxzero spake:[quote]Some sites do have "introduce yourself" sections or specific threads in their forums where users are allowed a post to do exactly that. Aside from making presences known, it may serve as an icebreaker, a means of learning how to use the forums, or to halfheartedly fill the absence of a bio section.

This site offers pretty robust customisable user profiles to explain or describe themselves for all to see. Profile pages make it a little more flexible. Blogs can be used for this, but aren't often, get few views, and definitely do not get featured. As for the bulletin boards, the only way I could see this happening is a (maybe stickied) thread in Miscellaneous. An entirely new board would be trivial and detract from the spirit of discussion. New users on this site grow accustomed fairly easily--owing to this site being relatively easy to use, whether it be by jumping into a chatroom or posting in a forum thread or penning a blog.

So while I maintain that a designated introduction medium isn't too important, there could be other ways to sate the matter. Similar to the birthday module, maybe a new users module which shows new accounts and resets on a daily basis. Considering the small community and modest rate of new accounts being created, possibly also little chatroom messages, e.g. "Welcome to SDK, [user]!"

I agree. New users should be displayed on the homepage, with birthdays and friend activities.[/quote]

Except the new user to perma'd alt, alt account and or spam bot to actual new member ratio is quite low now. Newer users here either come from a different site similar to this and have established friends here already, or just go straight to the chats and chat.

Adding a "Hi my name is _____" name badge is just something you can do on your profile.

Your makeup is terrible, but I love you anyway.

This would be nice.

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Although I wanted a new member list thing when I couldn't see the feed, Haru raises good points. Tons of perma'd alts would fill it up, mostly. Maybe a polished up version of the feed without all the info of it could be made, and if there are alts attached to one account at all it just won't show up on it.

You like me, and I, like you, like me.

I feel that if this idea was true it would be absuse. For example "hey my name is..... blur im new!" then submit.


Short threads leading to spam.

A true developer

I like Blur.

You like me, and I, like you, like me.

The distinguished inSein spake:

I like Blur.

What your point of that?

A true developer

The distinguished M.J kInG spake:

The distinguished inSein spake:[quote]I like Blur.

What your point of that?[/quote]

It's completely irrelevant.

You like me, and I, like you, like me.