Thread: Etiquette Question

When one joins SRP and introduces themselves, or shoots of their first thread we all generally state "Welcome to SRP."

It's a great thing! It makes the gentleman/woman feel... well, welcome lol! But am I the only one who feels odd about it?

Sure I am a member of the community. I take pride in being a member, and try my best to contribute in a civil manor (I know, I know my "soft skills" need work lol), but I don't own the place or Moderate it. It's not like I go to Disney Land for a 7 day stay, and on day seven state to the guy who's been there for a day - welcome to Disney LOL! Heck, the only time I welcome anyone is when they get off a plane to come see me (and even then I have to say welcome to KC... Missouri lol), or when they walked into my old place of work...

It's weird and yet today I caught myself editing a post just so I could add in "Welcome to SRP" LOL.

So do you think we do it as it's just the polite thing to do? Or is it that we are just so proud to be a part of something that is so out of the mainstream, that we take a pride or rather ownership of those people "coming into the fold" as it were?

Don't get me wrong - I think it's a good thing - but what are your thoughts?

This site can for the first timer be rather intimadating,I think a wellcome is a very good thing, just like you would wellcome a person into your home, you want them to be at ease.

If I lived in an apartment building and someone moved in, I'd welcome them. It wouldn't matter that someone else owned the building or if I'd recently moved in myself. If we all let the veteran guys welcome the newbies, they won't have time to ask and answer questions about more advanced stuff.

David, I have always thought of SRP as an Old Fashioned Gentlemen's (no offense to the ladies) club each sub-forum as a seperate table where one could pull up a chair and dicuss the topics at hand.. So yes as a new member of the club walks in a Hearty Welcome seems appropriate

+1 To the point Glen brings to the table. I have always felt very welcome here and try to extend this to others. I think it's part of what makes this site very different from many others. Gentlemanly conduct has truly not gone out of style here!

David --
Speaking from my professional experience having spent a great deal of my life in locker rooms with a high turnover rate of teammates, I can tell you with absolute certainty that a friendly handshake and a warm smile goes a LOOOOOOOONG way to easing tension on everyone's part. From welcoming a pimple-faced rookie fresh off the farm to a 20-year vet that I played against (and occasionally fought), the first introduction in the locker room definitely set the tone for the rest of the season.
This site was created to share knowledge and experiences, but if no one ever welcomed a rookie, the site would ultimately die. Besides, it gives Senior Members the opportunity to make new friends. For example, I never would have thought I'd become friends w/a 14 year-old from Lost Wages, NV!

Wow MLA - who knew you could be so eloquent!?

I agree with you all 100%. Like I said, I found myself editing my post just to do the "welcome" thing!

I like Glens idea of the chair at a bar, and MLA's notion of first impressions. Heck I like what everyone said... but being that I find myself at bars just nodding when someone asks if this seat is taken, not even looking up - and I barely extend my hand in a locker room knowing the new guy will most likely see one skate on the ice, suffer a concussion and never come back... I find it crazy that I feel so compelled to do so here! LOL.

Sorry for thinking out loud here guys!!

Originally Posted by earcutter

Wow MLA - who knew you could be so eloquent!?

Sorry for thinking out loud here guys!!

David --
I thought I heard metal grinding!
I did give many interviews.
mla

It's just a tradition called manners that the modern world is forgetting, but we here like it cause it feels right at home .........Welcome to SRP.

Originally Posted by mapleleafalumnus

David --
Speaking from my professional experience having spent a great deal of my life in locker rooms with a high turnover rate of teammates, I can tell you with absolute certainty that a friendly handshake and a warm smile goes a LOOOOOOOONG way to easing tension on everyone's part. From welcoming a pimple-faced rookie fresh off the farm to a 20-year vet that I played against (and occasionally fought), the first introduction in the locker room definitely set the tone for the rest of the season.

Love it! You Canadians... always talking about Curling.

*ducks*

(Sorry, we don't know each other. But living where I live, I have lots of Canadian friends and had to take the cheap shot)