# Should welcome message for invited users come from the inviter?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-welcome-message-for-invited-users-come-from-the-inviter/14466
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [2014年四月4日 16:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-welcome-message-for-invited-users-come-from-the-inviter/14466 "2014-04-04T16:26:12Z")
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### Author: ![angelim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/angelim/32/108456_2.png) [@angelim](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angelim)
#### Post date: [2014年四月5日 16:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-welcome-message-for-invited-users-come-from-the-inviter/14466/5 "2014-04-05T16:44:39Z")

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You really do make a good point. There are other facets to what I was proposing. I was considering the emotional impact of having a friend walking with you through the next steps.

If I invite someone to a park, I’d like to show them around. Tell them how they should carry themselves, what is acceptable by the ones I already fraternize with and so on. I wouldn’t prefer to have the “security guard” go through all that with me. That would also apply for general invitations: the ones without a topic attached to them.

I’ve started a topic about some ideas to improve the invitation workflow experience here:

> [@Invite workflow](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-workflow/14460):
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> I’ve been thinking about the invite workflow and I have the following suggestions. Let me know what you think. Invitees shouldn’t have to confirm email address. The only way they got to the forum was reading an undisclosed token in their email. email\_domains\_blacklist should be used to validate invite emails. The inviter should know that email cannot be used. We could create a notification when creating invitee accounts to instruct them to define username and password before leaving. That coul…

Maybe we could close this one and continue there?

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