Personally, I don't think new members should let not getting a lot of responses to their introduction thread get to them or take it as a sign of apathy from the general MB community. My intro thread only got a response from one person, but I realised that didn't necessarily mean that I wasn't welcome, just that no one knew anything about me and that I could be a spammer or a person that only posted once and then left for all anyone knew.
In my opinion, if you are a new member you should first prove that you are here to do what the site is meant for, and then you will be deserving of welcoming and people will probably also be welcoming towards you.
Of course I see nothing wrong with welcoming new members in their intro threads; on the contrary, it's great! But new members shouldn't take it for granted.
edit: Whoa there's been a lot of new posts since I started writing this, how do you guys type so fast, lol
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