I haven't said anything up to now, to me they're like walmart greeters - some like them or they wouldn't be there, I just smile, nod, and move on.
However. If we're looking to increase membership it CAN be counterproductive, new guy joins to ask a question, instead of an answer he gets several welcome messages, and when the welcomers have links in their siggys it can be real confusing to a newcomer since he assumes his answer is in one of the links somewhere. Not going to encourage a new guy to stay by spamming with warm welcome messages and zero helpful posts that actually deal with the problems, some of the forums I've been a moderator on would consider that type of thing OFF TOPIC and delete them.
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