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please no welcome messages, they're like the most obnoxious thing Reddit ever had (well ok maybe not the most), they just clog your inbox.
I'll consider it. Thanks for your comment.
I don't see a problem with having the feature as an option. It only becomes a problem if it is misused by moderators.
The problem with something like this is that people start to dislike it more with experience. People have to be less experienced to become more experienced, and so it's a certainty that there will be a lot of moderators that misuse it.
I also don't mean to sound like a gnome dev, but what is actually the use case for this?
I agree that welcome messages are often just clutter, but I don't think that this means the feature should not be included. For some communities, a welcome message is appropriate. Moderators don't need to use every feature for a given community.