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Hello

This is a good and valid answer.
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Short, simple, helpful, nothing more to say.

While this is just unnecessary barking at a new member of the HUBB.
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Personally i think it is always ok if you want something and you are new to find a few nice words of Introduction instead of coming in and just ask for a favour.

But maybe I am old fashioned.
This is the HUBB, a forum where travellers share their knowledge with other travellers.
Trips from a few weeks to several years, nobody cares, there is no hierarchy.
Most travel by motorbike, some by 4wd and a few even by bicycle.

This forum is huge:
Threads: 80,601, Posts: 537,726, Users: 67,617
Currently Active Users: 3730 (315 Users and/or Members and 3415 guests)

Who cares if a new member hasn't introduced himself in the welcome section.
If a question is unclear, there will be few/no answers, so what.

If you feel a question is not worthy your time...
Don't answer!

But please don't bark at them.
Sharing is the purpose of this forum.

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Who cares if a new member hasn't introduced himself in the welcome section.
If a question is unclear, there will be few/no answers, so what.

If you feel a question is not worthy your time...
Don't answer!

But please don't bark at them.
Sharing is the purpose of this forum.

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it was not about the welcome section, If I see that someone asks in his 1st post something without just telling a little bit about him I consider this a little unfriendly.

This is something what bothers me in the internet, everybody wants information but does not want to say a proper hollo.

And yes, you are right, sharing is the purpose here.
And this is for both sides.

I was sharing information and asking for some "Hello" in the first post.

And to be honest, it was you starting to bark around and make a big deal out of it

And you are also right, I will not answer in the future and help people if I think it is not worth it.
And this is because of your stupid answer here.

Still for the protocol:
I did give information for the one who asked, I just wanted him to show some respect too.

And then you came up with making a big deal out of it.

In the future in similar situations, I will keep my feet still and dont answer anymore.

Is that now good for you?
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This forum is to big to work with introductions. Maybe it was his first post without introduction, or maybe he did write an introduction and I did not read it. Because there are 67,617 members on this forum of which 3828 are active right now. I don't know any of this people, and will never read their introduction. Yet, if they ask something that I know, I will answer their question. Just like you.

I surely hope that nobody will introduce himself in topics that are not started by that person or not about that person. Because that would just be off-topic and make a mess.

The second thing is that I do not feel like you should treat somebody differently because his postcount is only 1.

We have this gathering of travellers each year on a campsite, just very small and informal, but there are usually a few new faces everytime. If I come walking into a conversation at the bbq or whatever, and I don't know everybody yet, I will just try to add any information that I can to help people on the road.

I believe you would do that too Klaus.
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