User blog:Followed by 100 zeroes/Welcome to the wiki!

recently made an interesting comment on my user talk page concerning the over-welcoming of new users. His main conclusion was that newbies are being welcomed too much too fast, even with the welcoming system. The overstuffed messages appear to be confusing and intimidating the user and may even result in an instant retirement. (I was not so fortunate; I was welcomed by Echo and Cutup with a warning message that happened to be a mistake on his part.)

Even worse, a good amount of the messages are advertisements:


 * "Interested in a trade visit my store!!!"
 * "Come to the Deep Sea Danger Zonefor great trades."
 * "Hey buddy You want to appreciate bees then join us at The Bee hive"

All right, end of the rant that appears on every post. But, as I always say on every post, this is not the best way to welcome &mdash; smothering one's talk page with advertisements and duplicated welcome messages. If you are one of those who has been attacked by a horde of wild messages on a rampage, kindly notify the offending parties if you wish. If you are one of those who attacked someone else with a horde of wild messages on a rampage, I highly recommend giving it up &mdash; otherwise, I may have to dig out my warn1 template. I'm sorry, but gaining trust from newbies by advertising to them is neither acceptable or appropriate.

Now, on the other hand, there are also those who are trying to make the newbies feel welcome by giving them a nice virtual hug following the automated message. Although such behavior is pretty much acceptable, I'm afraid that your efforts are in vain &mdash; the more messages, the less inclination to continue.

In general: If he has to archive his talk page because of all the welcomes and advertisements, you've done something wrong.