# Hide 'Welcome to the forums' for admin user. Make reading it mandatory

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-welcome-to-the-forums-for-admin-user-make-reading-it-mandatory/28669>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [Maio 12, 2015, 12:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-welcome-to-the-forums-for-admin-user-make-reading-it-mandatory/28669 "2015-05-12T00:55:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![samnazarko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/samnazarko/32/109010_2.png) [@samnazarko](https://meta.discourse.org/u/samnazarko)\
**Post date:** [Maio 12, 2015, 12:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-welcome-to-the-forums-for-admin-user-make-reading-it-mandatory/28669/1 "2015-05-12T00:55:55Z")

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Hi

Tried to check for a PM the other day and noticed that my messages were filled with ‘Welcome to the forums’ which is a little annoying.

Perhaps this should not be shown as a listed sent item?

Another, potentially nice thing, would be to encourage them to read it before making a first post. A quick reminder of them to check the guidelines and read the original message too. This could be displayed in a dialog similar to the ‘Your topic is similar to’ with something like:

‘You’re new here’

- You might want to read how to get the best out of this forum (link to PM if unread)
- You might want to read our [community guidelines](https://meta.discourse.org/guidelines) (link to FAQ if unread)

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