My guess is that not all users neccessarily want to be "welcomed". They like to lurk.
I'm very sorry if she tipped off anyone about your cunningly concealed herd of cows.
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Jon B. - Jan 06, 2003 8:43:16 am PST #2615 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
DXMachina - Jan 06, 2003 8:45:03 am PST #2616 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Right. Do not startle the Buffistas...
Jim - Jan 06, 2003 8:45:42 am PST #2617 of 10000
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
We should shine a light into their dark lurking places! Or not, actually. Good point. Still, it would've been cool.
Jon B. - Jan 06, 2003 8:50:07 am PST #2618 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I'm thinking especially of V.I.P.'s.
Rebecca Lizard - Jan 06, 2003 8:53:06 am PST #2619 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
I'm kinda against it, for the same lurkity reasons.
Cindy - Jan 06, 2003 8:56:59 am PST #2620 of 10000
Nobody
People don't have to register to lurk though, do they? I kind of like knowing there are new members. If they cared enough to join, I expect they'll delurk at some point. I don't like the lists of "who's currently logged on at the site", but that's different from a new member list.
Jessica - Jan 06, 2003 9:00:02 am PST #2621 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
People don't have to register to lurk though, do they?
People have to register to lurk easily, because the board won't "mark as read" if you're not logged in.
I don't know about announcing new members names as they register, but it might be cool to have just a counter.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Jan 06, 2003 9:00:04 am PST #2622 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Would a complete, publically accessible list of all members solve the problem? If it was ranked from oldest to newest, you could just take a quick look and see who was new. It would also be easy, I think, as they'd just be by id number.
Jon B. - Jan 06, 2003 9:01:14 am PST #2623 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Would a complete, publically accessible list of all members solve the problem?
No. It would still violate user's privacy.
Jim - Jan 06, 2003 9:01:33 am PST #2624 of 10000
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
OK, yeah, it's a bad idea.