Customizable welcome email when joining a community

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Title:
Customizable welcome email when joining a community

Area:
communities

Summary:
Community administrators would be able to customize a "getting started" email with posting guidelines, useful links, tips for getting started, etc. that would be autosent upon joining the community, much like the welcome emails sent by listservs.

Description:
While currently it's possible to provide a link to the community profile or a post with posting guidelines when someone joins a community, that's fairly impersonal and brief. I think it would be useful to have an optional feature to send a welcome email that could be customized by the community administrator(s) to help people get started when they join a community, much like the feature on Yahoo!Groups, Google Groups, and other email lists/listservs. This would make it possible to send a "friendlier" welcome message, as well as provide information about participating in the community and useful links not necessarily covered by posting guidelines.

Poll #11272 Customizable welcome email when joining a community

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 57

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Should be implemented as-is.
19 (33.3%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
23 (40.4%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
7 (12.3%)

(I have no opinion)
8 (14.0%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)