Welcome Committee!

    If we had a welcoming committee, would you be in favor of each member sending a gifted flower, or rotating the responsibility and sending several? 9

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    To help the forum grow, I think we should have a welcome committee! :D
    The responsibilities would be welcoming each new member to the forum by
    posting a welcome message on the new person's wall, and we could even take turns sending the newbie a bouquet of flowers via pm welcoming them.

    So, if you would like to be on the Welcoming Committee, please sign up below. (Questions and comments are welcomed and will not be viewed as volunteering. If you do want to join the committee, please state so plainly so I'll know. If we get enough people we can create a rotating list of who's turn it is to send the flowers. Or, perhaps it would be nicer for everyone to send one flower each. What do you think? This is a work in progress, and nothing is set in stone yet.

    Some banners to use when sending the welcome message (PM):

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    Edited 2 times, last by truelinor: Added Flowergame welcome banners and code. (March 25, 2014 at 7:15 PM).

    My support to it. I chose the second one, since my own collection is still far far away from completion,I doubt I have enough plants to send. But I will be happy to do it as well if the out come is the first method. Just count me in.

    And the question part: How do you define and find the newbies?
    Some of them even don't have a forum account. Even for those who have an account, it is impossible for us to check and record the data every time. Paying attention to the forum data every moments is impossible so it is easy to miss out them.
    I think it will be better if we can have a Introduce yourself section on this forum;) Thus we can find newbies easier by that comparing to track the forum member list(or data shown at the bottom).


    -Currently learning German-
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    I think she means when a new person signs up on the forums. For instance, right now it says the newest member of the forums is Meags. This doesn't necessarily mean they are new to FG, just new to the forums. The flower is just a way of welcoming them.

    I think it's a great idea. I'll help out with it as well, but I think it's best if we rotate who does it.

    Shelybear, since you don't have many flowers yet, don't feel bad if you don't sign up yet. You can always sign up and join in the welcoming later. :)

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    Well it makes sense. But as I said, it is impossible to stare at the forum statistics every time. To know whether newbies join, you need to remember the current number. I know we can know who is the newest one/ are new to here by several methods,anyway, I just think a introduction section would be helpful.


    -Currently learning German-
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    this is a great idea!! i think that instead of just one person sending we should have a few users donate one or two flowers each when they want to (for example they pm the user with the gift link, with a message titled "welcome bouquet" or something), so the strain on one specific user is less, and it would be more of a community effort.

    Posting a welcome message on ones's wall is a good idea. I would also like an introduction thread, maybe pinned on top somewhere, so every new member can see it easily and say hello. :)
    Sending flowers to forum newbies is nice as long as it´s not too compulsory. I do not always have spare flowers to gift and I have a specific amount I collect of each flower.

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    Well, we could have two groups - and they don't have to be exclusive of each other. In other words, you can "sign up" to be in either one or the other group or both. The first group of people would be those who would post a welcome message on the newbie's board. The second group would be those who have plenty of flowers and are willing to send the newbies a plant or two. I think if we do it as a community effort with everyone sending plants, we ought to send just one, maybe two plants. But if we rotate it, the person who sends the bouquet can send, say 4-5 flowers. It appears from the poll that most people favor rotating, but we'll let it go for a little while longer just to be sure.

    I thought perhaps we could have a graphic - sort of an official welcome committee graphic that we can send to the person - and everyone could send it when they sent the bouquet of flowers. That would be neat, wouldn't it?

    Also, the idea of an Introduce Yourself thread is good. I can go ahead and start one and when we send the flowers, we could link to it and encourage the newbie to post on it and let us get to know them.

    Any thoughts are appreciated and will (hopefully, if possible) be implemented.

    I want to say sorry to you all.
    I somehow mistook the order of two choices. The only one vote for second one should also goes to first one. And I did make same mistake in my first reply here-my words and my vote are not corresponding.

    I could try the graph, if I understand you right. What kind of picture is required? How about a welcome letter?
    If so,what should be written on?


    -Currently learning German-
    <3

    Well, the graphic could be something like the banners we made on your thread, only it would be OK for them to be bigger since they don't have to be in a sig. I'll make one later when I have time - I need to get off the computer now - gotta go to work! lol

    I just made one in hurry. Maybe I'll try to do more, hopefully in the not-so-far future.


    Well I just had a look at the forum frames and made two newer.
    They should perfectly match the frame of thread( since PMs/Conversations share the same format as forum threads).

    without committee:

    with committee:


    P.S.I like that font,Lyn.
    P.P.S.I have to type the codes manually since it always comes out with "image URL is missing" when I trying to insert it :(


    -Currently learning German-
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    Edited 3 times, last by Shelybear (March 17, 2014 at 2:57 PM).

    Yes,pls.

    EDIT:Ah sorry, I forgot to give you codes.

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    without committee:

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    with committee:

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    I tried to give you nested codes so you can just copy and paste it directly without needing to make slightly change on them manually. However, it didn't present as my expectation.


    -Currently learning German-
    <3

    Edited 4 times, last by Shelybear (March 17, 2014 at 2:54 PM).

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    Uhm..would you like to have a badge in our signature? It can be linked to this thread.

    And Tru, I saw your welcome thread.Should we post a briefly self-introduction there?

    I don't think we need a badge, for the simple reason this thread is just talking about how to welcome the newbies, not an official welcome - however, a badge or banner to the Introduction thread might be nice. And, yes, I think it would be ever so nice if anyone who wants to would post an introduction of themselves so newcomers wouldn't think the thread deserted or something.

    EDIT: Oh and thanks for the codes! :D