Forum:Welcoming editors

Okay, so I'm seriously considering disabling the automatic welcoming of users, because on vandal edits and people whose first edit is fancharacter stuff, it basically says, "Hi, thanks for doing nothing useful!" The followup question is then whether we want to create a welcome template that we can place on talk pages to say hi properly. Here's FFWiki's, which we don't have to imitate, obviously, I'm just using it to illustrate what I mean. The upper one is how it appears on registered user talk pages, and the lower, IPs. But yeah, I really think we need to consider disabling the automatic welcome, and start welcoming people manually. The idea being that we notice new users when they make edits, ideally constructive ones, rather than the system noticing them and welcoming them regardless of edit quality