Originally Posted by
Cholula
Not too many newbies in OMNI so my guess is No.
Originally Posted by
Markie
Let me say from the outset that I have asked for several years that Mods be given a tool to allow them to identify new members posting in the their forum, or first time postings by an established member. This would have allowed the Mods to do the task that the Ambassadors have been assigned. This tool has not been made available, and so the ability to welcome new members/posters is a hit and miss affair. How will this proposal identify new members or first time posters?
Are "welcomes" limited to people who have just signed-up on FT? Or anyone new to the forum? Personally, I would like to see a UA flyer who pops over to the DL forum for the first time to be welcomed... and that FTer is likely to be asking a "newbie" type question. It doesn't matter if the forum is an airline, destination, or CC. New posters to a forum tend to have the same types of questions. I actually like Markie's idea, but why limit this to moderators? I've seen a suggestion somewhere to show a members total post count, and the post count in the particular forum. I don't know if that is possible, but it would be pretty cool. (In the context of identifying new posters; in general, I couldn't care less about post counts.)
Originally Posted by
Cholula
TS/S
does have some warm, fuzzy and welcoming folks, believe it or not.
You just have to peer through the barrage of slings, arrows and brickbats to spot them.
Yes, TS/S
does! And it's often the same person who in the next post (or even the same post) is right in the middle of the "barrage". Would this person be a good Ambassador for the forum? If not, would they be eligible to serve as an Ambassador in another forum? I could easily see a TB member who "knows" a poster from one forum (even OMNI
) to base their vote on the posts in that forum rather than in the forum the member applied to serve as Ambassador.