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New User Log

We need a new user log, kinda like what Wikipedia has (click). It'd enable the creation of a Welcoming Committee (I could be the founder!) and we'd also be able to spot Sockpuppets upon creation. All in favor? Daedryon^{•T•C•E•} 00:01, 4 August 2008 (EDT)

Aye --M'aiq the Liar 03:59, 27 August 2008 (EDT)

I'm not so sure about that. We seem to have been doing a fine enough job welcoming new users as they make their first edits. We've also never been surprised by a sockpuppet that I'm aware of; if there's a reason to suspect, an admin can check and then deal with the problem. For a wiki as large as Wikipedia, it makes sense, but at the moment I don't see the need for it here, unless the editors currently serving as the "Welcoming Committee" think it would be useful... --GuildKnight^Talk2me 19:39, 28 August 2008 (EDT)

Us welcome committee people are quite unofficial, as is the theme around here, I admit that, but so far I see two supports (me and M'aiq) Daedryon^{•T•C•E•} 23:34, 28 August 2008 (EDT)

I don't see that it's necessary either. It's easy enough to spot new posters from the recent changes page (any account with a redlink for a talk page). Currently we have 3198 users who have made a post [1] but 17,315 users who have made an account (Special:Statistics). I'd rather only welcome the users that actually post. –Rpeh^{•T•C•E•} 03:46, 29 August 2008 (EDT)

The numbers are less disparate if you count all the IP editors as well (not sure how to go about getting such a count, but whatever). But I'd agree that it doesn't make much sense to give out welcomes to people who haven't ever posted. (I actually think that'd be slightly creepy, getting a welcome message when you haven't actually done anything yet. Sort of an "I'm watching you, scum." sort of feeling. Okay, minus the "scum" part, just had to make a Morrowind quote there.) So I don't see this being too useful for that purpose. On the other hand, if it's farily simple to install, and has no negative impact on the site, I don't see that there's any reason not to add the feature (with the stipulation that we don't give welcomes to non-posting lurkers), but there's no need to go out of our way to do so either. --TheRealLurlock ^Talk 17:28, 1 September 2008 (EDT)

I'd be in favor if the welcoming message actually said, "We're watching you, scum."-Ratwar 18:35, 1 September 2008 (EDT)

I support that. I'd like to have a Welcoming Committee on UESP. C Teng ^[talk] 08:56, 11 November 2008 (EST)