Welcoming New Members

Ok, I've been thinking about this for some time now, since I wrote the KMC article on Wiki anyway. Basically I've noticed that although new members are always welcomed positively in the Welcome Forum it seems that as soon as they venture anywhere else on KMC they're generally ostracised within a very short space of time.

I know I, and a few others, have tried to keep the positive welcomes consistent but there are a lot of members who have been here for a while who constantly try to intimidate newer members, as though it's some kind of competition and something to be proud of. This makes absolutely no sense to me, especially when you consider how many times I've seen people questioning KMC's overall atmosphere and wondering why it's spiralling downwards.

I think that we should ALL make every effort to make new members feel 100% welcome here, there's no reason to make them uncomfortable and if we were truly proud of the forum and our membership here then we'd all be doing this automatically. I say from now on, unless we're provided with obvious and valid reasons not to, we should all try to prove that KMC really is the best community on the net.

Who's with me? eyes

Originally posted by Syren
Ok, I've been thinking about this for some time now, since I wrote the KMC article on Wiki anyway. Basically I've noticed that although new members are always welcomed positively in the Welcome Forum it seems that as soon as they venture anywhere else on KMC they're generally ostracised within a very short space of time.

I know I, and a few others, have tried to keep the positive welcomes consistent but there are a lot of members who have been here for a while who constantly try to intimidate newer members, as though it's some kind of competition and something to be proud of. This makes absolutely no sense to me, especially when you consider how many times I've seen people questioning KMC's overall atmosphere and wondering why it's spiralling downwards.

I think that we should ALL make every effort to make new members feel 100% welcome here, there's no reason to make them uncomfortable and if we're truly proud of the forum and our membership here then we'd all be doing this automatically. I say from now on, unless we're provided with obvious and valid reasons not to, we should all try to prove that KMC really is the best community on the net.

Who's with me? eyes

I make people feel welcomed each and everyday.😊

*bans Syren for suggesting ludicrous ideas*

Originally posted by LethalFemme
I make people feel welcomed each and everyday.😊

You never made me feel welcomedisgust

I hate new members, so no, I'm not with you.

😆

You can't ban me sweetie, or anyone for that matter. You're just a lowly member, like me. There, there.

Disclaimer - I'm in rather a good mood today (hence the cheesy threads); sunshine, no work and a serious lack of stress. Lovely 😊

Originally posted by Syren
😆

You can't ban me sweetie, or anyone for that matter. You're just a lowly member, like me. There, there.

Disclaimer - I'm in rather a good mood today (hence the cheesy threads); sunshine, no work and a serious lack of stress. Lovely 😊

Damn!dammit Someday....someday...Ill get you goodsneaky2

Originally posted by Mišt
*bans Syren for suggesting ludicrous ideas*

You never made me feel welcomedisgust

I welcome you to log off.mhm

Originally posted by LethalFemme
I welcome you to log off.mhm

I welcome you to pm me with sexually explicit contentmhm

I wont tell anyonedodgy

Hello Syren, thank you, you have made me feel welcome.

Why on Earth would you want to dedicate any time to making new members of an internet forum FEEL welcome? Illogical for a few reasons.

1) The OTF is the only free social forum, and most people wouldn't be here for that, or to make friends.

2) They're people randomly using the net, why dedicate any more time than "Welcome to KMC" to them? Why even that?

3) Ok, so we have some decent members (most of which don't even dwell here, if we're talking about what makes a decent overall forum member), but why would you take pride in the actual forum? That's like internet patriotism.

-AC

Originally posted by LethalFemme
I make people feel welcomed each and everyday.😊

Ahem...

I make people feel welcome d each and everyday

That's more like it... 😄

BDB

Originally posted by ~Da Moose~
Ahem...

I make people feel wel[B]come d each and everyday

That's more like it... 😄 [/B]

You read me too well.eyes

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
Why on Earth would you want to dedicate any time to making new members of an internet forum FEEL welcome? Illogical for a few reasons.

1) The OTF is the only free social forum, and most people wouldn't be here for that, or to make friends.

2) They're people randomly using the net, why dedicate any more time than "Welcome to KMC" to them? Why even that?

3) Ok, so we have some decent members (most of which don't even dwell here, if we're talking about what makes a decent overall forum member), but why would you take pride in the actual forum? That's like internet patriotism.

-AC

Then why do you post here?

Originally posted by LethalFemme
Then why do you post here?

Nothing I said indicated that I had no reason to post here, did it? It was showing how pointless I find this welcoming committee to be.

There are a couple of people on this site I do interact socially with, but I didn't intend to come here socially, nor would I class it as majorly "social" anyway. My point was that people aren't coming here to join the OTF, you see.

People think the OTF is more important than it really is, when its real importance is keeping the shit members from the good forums.

-AC

maybe to talk

Originally posted by ~Da Moose~
Ahem...

I make people feel wel[B]come d each and everyday

That's more like it... 😄 [/B]

Haha, I get it...come..haha....as in sexually....haha...or Id idn't get it...maybe I should come as I am. ermm

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
Nothing I said indicated that I had no reason to post here, did it? It was showing how pointless I find this welcoming committee to be.

There are a couple of people on this site I do interact socially with, but I didn't intend to come here socially, nor would I class it as majorly "social" anyway. My point was that people aren't coming here to join the OTF, you see.

People think the OTF is more important than it really is, when its real importance is keeping the shit members from the good forums.

-AC

I see it as the community pool.

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
Why on Earth would you want to dedicate any time to making new members of an internet forum FEEL welcome? Illogical for a few reasons.

1) The OTF is the only free social forum, and most people wouldn't be here for that, or to make friends.

2) They're people randomly using the net, why dedicate any more time than "Welcome to KMC" to them? Why even that?

3) Ok, so we have some decent members (most of which don't even dwell here, if we're talking about what makes a decent overall forum member), but why would you take pride in the actual forum? That's like internet patriotism.

-AC

I didn't mention making them feel more welcome in the OTF specifically. I just said that once new members have left the Welcome forum and venture anywhere else they're generally treated badly, or so I've noticed. How could you possibly find a problem with a positive idea?

The Welcome forum does its job, admittedly, but it seems really mechanical to me. You know for sure that in the welcome forum you're guaranteed a nice, open-armed hello. But everywhere else is filled to the brim with people who seriously think they're superior to every new member and I'd rather see newcomers treated with courtesy. Yet you've found reason to view this effort as something to be argued against, I can't see why.

What's wrong with patriotism, actually? I'm proud to be a member of KMC, I think the forum as a whole is quite good, although it could be better in a lot of ways. Why do you post here if you don't enjoy it and don't achieve a sense of satisfaction from the discussions you partake in? To alleviate boredom alone? Get a hobby.

I just don't see how making new members feel truly welcome and as comfortable as the older members could possibly be a bad thing.

Edit; As for the 'Committee' title, it was intended as a light-hearted approach. I don't think I went over-board with this. Notice the 'I'll bake the cookies' option? It's supposed to be fun.

Originally posted by Bardock42
Haha, I get it...come..haha....as in sexually....haha...or Id idn't get it...maybe I should come as I am. ermm

You're both sexually attractive AND observant. I like that in my man-whores.

[edit] don't know what it means