# Best way for new members to introduce themselves
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-way-for-new-members-to-introduce-themselves/153963
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [June 5, 2020, 5:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-way-for-new-members-to-introduce-themselves/153963 "2020-06-05T17:13:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
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### Author:  [@cmoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cmoi)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2020, 5:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-way-for-new-members-to-introduce-themselves/153963/1 "2020-06-05T17:13:01Z")
Should I create it as a Category that is fix or just as a Fix Topic?
What is your opinion.
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### Author:  [@EricGT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/EricGT)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2020, 5:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-way-for-new-members-to-introduce-themselves/153963/2 "2020-06-05T17:23:43Z")
Check out Neo4j [forum](https://community.neo4j.com/), they might be doing something you like.
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### Author:  [@cmoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cmoi)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2020, 5:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-way-for-new-members-to-introduce-themselves/153963/3 "2020-06-05T17:36:13Z")
Looks great.
So people need to create a new topic when they introduce themselves.
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### Author:  [@EricGT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/EricGT)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2020, 5:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-way-for-new-members-to-introduce-themselves/153963/4 "2020-06-05T17:42:36Z")
> [@cmoi](#):
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> So people need to create a new topic when they introduce themselves.
Not just a topic with no category but a topic in the Category: `General` and subcategory `Introduce Yourself` ([link](https://community.neo4j.com/c/general/introduce-yourself/7)).
Don’t ask me the details of how they did it.
If you ask here I am sure others could give you specifics.
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### Author:  [@cmoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cmoi)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2020, 5:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-way-for-new-members-to-introduce-themselves/153963/5 "2020-06-05T17:49:00Z")
I think I can figure it out. Many thanks!
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### Author:  [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2020, 6:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-way-for-new-members-to-introduce-themselves/153963/6 "2020-06-05T18:01:46Z")
We just have a category where new users can introduce themselves. It’s creatively called: _‘Introduce Yourself’_ 👍
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### Author:  [@cmoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cmoi)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2020, 6:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-way-for-new-members-to-introduce-themselves/153963/7 "2020-06-05T18:05:13Z")
That is what I did.. and it works great 👍
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### Author:  [@EricGT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/EricGT)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2020, 6:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-way-for-new-members-to-introduce-themselves/153963/8 "2020-06-05T18:10:56Z")
> [@ondrej](#):
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> It’s creatively called: _‘Introduce Yourself’_ 👍
I joined [https://community.infiniteflight.com/](https://community.infiniteflight.com/) via my GitHub account and can not find the category “Introduce Yourself”.
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### Author:  [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2020, 8:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-way-for-new-members-to-introduce-themselves/153963/9 "2020-06-05T20:12:35Z")
It’s not on that forum. I meant my forum 👍
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### Author:  [@EricGT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/EricGT)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2020, 8:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-way-for-new-members-to-introduce-themselves/153963/10 "2020-06-05T20:14:47Z")
> [@ondrej](#):
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> my forum
This one: [https://forum-aviationforumcommunity-6985.nodechef.com/t/introduce-yourself/96](https://forum-aviationforumcommunity-6985.nodechef.com/t/introduce-yourself/96)
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2020, 9:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-way-for-new-members-to-introduce-themselves/153963/11 "2020-06-05T21:23:50Z")
A single “introduce yourself” topic can also work well, if it is linked from places that new users will be able to find it (site banner, or the welcome PM, etc).
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### Author:  [@Hanon\_Ondricek](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Hanon_Ondricek)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2020, 11:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-way-for-new-members-to-introduce-themselves/153963/12 "2020-06-08T23:06:42Z")
I’m proud of our legacy “Introducing Ourselves” thread that dates back to 2006 before we used Discourse - it imported perfectly from the previous board software. We just maintain a post instead of a whole category.
I edited the text of the Trust Level 1 welcome email to include a link to that thread and encouragement to add to it.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2020, 11:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-way-for-new-members-to-introduce-themselves/153963/13 "2020-06-08T23:43:57Z")
The only caution is that it’s not a good idea to let topics grow indefinitely (who will even read all that?) – but as long as the number of replies isn’t increasing too much each year, that should be fine.
It depends on your new user signup volume and how many volunteer to post in the introduction topic. I’m sure on most sites a single topic for introductions would work fine for a long time.
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### Author:  [@Hanon\_Ondricek](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Hanon_Ondricek)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2020, 4:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-way-for-new-members-to-introduce-themselves/153963/14 "2020-06-09T04:18:32Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> as long as the number of replies isn’t increasing too much each year, that should be fine.
Oh, definitely. We’re not high traffic and perhaps have _maybe_ five or six replies a month to it with some bursts during events.
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2020, 11:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-way-for-new-members-to-introduce-themselves/153963/15 "2020-06-10T23:32:53Z")
There is an old (but still relevant) discussion about this topic at [https://experts.feverbee.com/t/welcome-or-introduction-topics/1302](https://experts.feverbee.com/t/welcome-or-introduction-topics/1302)
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2020, 4:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-way-for-new-members-to-introduce-themselves/153963/16 "2020-06-11T04:05:35Z")
I like the system I set up for the legal empowerment network. The moderators review and onboard new members, and every two weeks write a post welcoming the latest additions. Like this:
[https://community.namati.org/t/new-member-introductions/74242?u=tobiaseigen](https://community.namati.org/t/new-member-introductions/74242?u=tobiaseigen)
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### Author:  [@EricGT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/EricGT)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2020, 1:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-way-for-new-members-to-introduce-themselves/153963/17 "2020-06-11T13:04:44Z")
> [@tobiaseigen](#):
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> I like the system I set up for the legal empowerment network. The moderators review and onboard new members, and every two weeks write a post welcoming the latest additions.
That is the [slickest](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Slickest) way I have seen. IMHO it is leading the pack based on what I have seen on other sites.
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### Author:  [@Jumanji](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jumanji)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2020, 9:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-way-for-new-members-to-introduce-themselves/153963/18 "2020-06-19T21:45:50Z")
Yea, that is cool! We link the Intro Yourself topic in the Welcome PM message.