# Are you using a real user to send welcome messages?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-you-using-a-real-user-to-send-welcome-messages/24292>\
**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [21. Januar 2015 um 22:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-you-using-a-real-user-to-send-welcome-messages/24292 "2015-01-21T22:35:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![AdamCapriola](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/adamcapriola/32/5192_2.png) [@AdamCapriola](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AdamCapriola)\
**Post date:** [11. Februar 2015 um 02:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-you-using-a-real-user-to-send-welcome-messages/24292/6 "2015-02-11T02:27:00Z")

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My suggestion would be to not show the welcome messages in the sender’s PMs until there is a reply. (Filter it out from the message lists and counts until posts \> 1.)

Is there any common scenario you’d want to see it otherwise? I guess it helps keep tabs on the latest users to join in case you want to reach out to someone you might already know, but that seems rare.

I changed my default sender to @system a while back because my inbox was getting crazy (I don’t know how you manage @codinghorror!) but am realizing that I’ve probably missed out on users replying to the welcome messages, which is unfortunate.

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