Most new members join, skim the rules and go quiet. This template gives them four light questions and, at the end, a reason to post: a welcome that points them to your introductions channel with an icebreaker built from their own answer.
The four questions
- “What interested you in joining this server?” A choice: a friend invited me, the topic, the events, the people, or something else.
- “What’s something you hope to learn, experience, or get out of being here?”
- “What’s one thing that brings you energy and joy?”
- “What’s a game you recommend to everyone?”
The last answer comes back in the welcome message, so the newcomer arrives in #introductions with something to say instead of a blank “hi”.
What you learn from it
The first question is a choice rather than open text, so you can count why people join and see whether your invites, your topic or your events bring them in. The open answers are where newcomers tell you what they hope to find; Text Analysis summarizes them so you can read the pattern without reading every reply.
Variants
- Public introductions: post each member’s answers in your welcome channel with New Response Notifications (Premium), and say so in the intro.
- A role on completion: create a “Welcome aboard” achievement linked to a role that opens the rest of the server, and give it at the end.
- Not a gaming server: swap the game question for one about your topic (a book, a tool, a track) and keep the icebreaker line.