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.