Welcome Bot, has just joined us @RG

Lets welcome them to the site.

Thanks Welcome Bot, from the users of RG

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On the serious note though, seems that the new bot that got implemented sparked a few controversies here and there

Will it be a permanent function or the staff is just testing this feature?

As this is the Comments & Suggestions field, my suggestion would be to fix the posts in a way that the new user is always mentioned and notified of existence of a new thread. I've seen quite a few posts in which the user is named in the title and post itself but is not mentioned, therefore if he's not using the What's New section he'll be pretty much unaware of the thread that just started.

I am a bit worried with the quantity of welcome threads, though. Wouldn't like to see the forum spammed with welcome threads that no one is commenting in. But i'm eager to see how will this work out. If everything goes as it should, we'll have less lurkers and more active members... which i think was the staff's goal in the first place.