'dn' saying "Welcome (to the list)"

[Hen Hanna]

On Saturday, February 25, 2023 at 9:52:35 PM UTC-8, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Feb 2023 at 16:23, Hen Hanna <henh... at gmail.com> wrote: 
> > 
> > 
> > On Thursday, March 4, 2021 dn wrote: 
> > > Hi, and welcome to the list. 
> > 
> > 
> > note that this is the very same rude guy ('dn') who is apparently the rudest of them all. 
> > 
> > note that this is the very same rude guy ('dn') who wants to shunt me away to the TUTOR list. 
> > 
> > ----------- i guess i'd consider being TUTOR'ed by 'dn' (or someone like it) 
> > if i can be paid $1000 / hour for it. 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Have others noticed this too? (it's often the guy who says "Welcome" that....) 
> > 
> > 
> > Whenever someone says "Welcome" to me (in this way), my alarm goes off. 
> > 
> > 
> > --------- a good way to explain it (the Phenomenon) is... it's an indication that he's itching to treat me as a Newbie... that he 's salivating because he senses an opportunity to MANsplain and WHITEsplain things to me. 
> >
> Fine, I won't say "welcome to the list" to anyone in the future. 


the rule of thumb is...          [Don't say it ;  show it ]

Maybe 10% of the time,  ppl who say  [Welcome to ...]   are actually good (welcoming) ppl.