New members

[BigBlueHen53]

A huge amount of New Members post an introduction and then are never seen again. It's a bit disheartening when you greet them cheerfully and don't get a response.

Same with a lot of folks who post an URGENT request for help, 20 of us post a helpful response, and then ... nothing. Did the chicken die? Did the OP die? What happened?

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Do we have one of those "prove you're not a robot' filters when people sign up?

 

[Perris]

My concern was prompted by a rash of apparent new members - filling significant chunks of the page of 'new posts', with bland usernames, and site-supplied alphabetic avatar - that were appearing in the days before I posted (and have since ceased). I don't have access to 'new posts' more than 4 pages back so can't show you what I mean, but site admins can presumably.

I did discover that there is some robot-id-ing software somewhere on site because the stats show e.g.

It occurs to me that cheap robots may explain why greetings and answers go unacknowledged, about which BigBlueHen remarked ruefully.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I remember noticing that too and thinking Wow, look at all the new members! But I did not greet all of them, only those that had fewer than 10 greetings, which IIRC were about 2 or 3.

 

[kattabelly]

A huge amount of New Members post an introduction and then are never seen again. It's a bit disheartening when you greet them cheerfully and don't get a response.

I really wish the "ignore thread" and/or "ignore forum" options were enabled here, especially since for some reason New Posts is limited to showing only four pages.

I miss a lot of things because I tend to browse via New Posts, and threads I like to follow or questions I would've been able to answer get hidden behind a load of intro posts from someone who'll quite likely never post again and other stuff like sales/rehoming threads that are irrelevant to me because I'm on the other side of the world.

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

I really wish the "ignore thread" and/or "ignore forum" options were enabled here, especially since for some reason New Posts is limited to showing only four pages.

I miss a lot of things because I tend to browse via New Posts, and threads I like to follow or questions I would've been able to answer get hidden behind a load of intro posts from someone who'll quite likely never post again and other stuff like sales/rehoming threads that are irrelevant to me because I'm on the other side of the world.

This sounds like something that should be put into its own thread as a feature request so it doesn't get buried in a thread like this.

 

[kattabelly]

This sounds like something that should be put into its own thread as a feature request so it doesn't get buried in a thread like this.

Done
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...-forum-and-or-display-more-new-posts.1684478/