Automated, scheduled Welcome Post That Tags New Members

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@tobiaseigen

Basically the GJN process looks like this:

• A member of the moderator team starts a public topic tagged #introductions every two weeks to introduce the new members to the community.
• They use an external system to get a list of new usernames, their organaizations and country they are from. This could be done with a data explorer query in Discourse.
• Start a new topic using a template, paste in the list, personalize as desired
• add whisper to @ mention moderators to remind them to help welcome new members
• new @ mentioned members are notified by email and start replying
• community members respond to welcome new members
• moderators edit previous new member intro topic to add the date range covered

This is exactly what I am looking for, and am actually doing something similar manually every week. Thank you for sharing, looks awesome

@tobiaseigen

It would be interesting if the topic could be generated automatically as a shared draft, which would then be reviewed and added to by a moderator before posting.

Totally, I will keep this in mind if I finally try something out.

@tobiaseigen

it gave our team the opportunity to review the new members, weed out any spammers that got through, help them add their organizations and update their bios, and generally get to know them individually.

That’s the thing. I am hesitant about letting go this manual process, and for now my community is small… but if it grows, it could be very helpful to have a more automated and AI powered processed (without leaving out a manual and human review, of course).