Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-10950063-20140403132326/@comment-1196539-20140404041347

Lil' Miss Rarity wrote:

GraydonL wrote:

Lil' Miss Rarity wrote: I think we need an attractive and attention grabbing welcome message instead of a plain text one. This will make it more eye catching. lel. If you had it your way, Maria, it would be bright pink with ponies. But I agree, IF you make it interesting, then more people will be interested, obviously. Slap a border on it or something but DO NOT keep it plain text if you want people to actually realize it. Yeah... I was a little out of touch. Length isn't the issue with it. It just needs to give people a reason to read it.

Which is hard to do, because as a welcome message, it's just... obligatory. Like a website's Terms of Services. Most people just aren't going to read it because it is (or they've been conditioned to assume it is) exactly the same thing they've read on every other website everywhere. They'll just click "agree" and move on--or in this case, ignore it.