Introduction forum?

Just wondering why there isn't an Introduction section, so we newbies can introduce ourselves and let folks begin to get to know us. The tidbits we put in our profiles are ok, but I'd like to know about the folks I talk to. Just wondering...

 

I'd imagine because then you'd be talkin' to yourself.

What I mean is that if you make a new forum for new guys just to introduce themselves, then that's all you'll get in there...and only new folks willing to talk about themselves.

People join forums for different reasons. A lot may just join just to get information and not socialize. I would think a post introducting yourself in a forum category already heavily read (such as The Watering Hole) would yield better results.

FC

 

Howdy, Wayne from another new to the forum person

 

Yeah, what he said...

I joined the papermodelers forum awhile back and found it rather interesting that they had an 'introduce yourself' forum that you HAD to post to the first time to enable your access to the forum. The newbs pop up with their 'hi there' posts in the "new posts" (which I always click on the forums and then sift through the results to read up on what interests me. Guess what-- guys introducing themselves never interests me... LOL

Seriously, read the posts that interest you and jump into the conversation on things that interest you, or that you know about, or that you have questions about, or that you have a funny or interesting story to relate... folks will engage with you on that level and then you can let them know more about you as you go along that way...

I think that's a FAR more constructive way of doing it than having a forum section devoted to folks describing themselves that nobody reads... LOL

All IMHO... OL JR

PS. Welcome to the forum...

PPS... you can always PM someone and ask them their life story if you so desire... or post it in the open forum... Later!

 

Intro made, on a separate thread. Thanks for the input.