It's welcoming for the first N people. A small subset of the community that starts the community. After a while it becomes an almost ritual hazing. Kind of lik

It's welcoming for the first N people. A small subset of the community that starts the community. After a while it becomes an almost ritual hazing. Kind of like HR making you write a paragraph about yourself for an introduction email to a company. In spirit, it should help people find some common ground with you to spark a conversation. In reality no one actually cares, it's awkward for the person writing the introduction, and helps nothing except waste time. On forums in particular I always hated these introductions because I don't really want people to know much about me on the internet anyway. So it became a tremendous effort to manufacture enough of a story it was consistent with my life (so I didn't forget), but different enough that I couldn't be identified. Newbie fingering though...that's hilarious. I haven't heard a FINGER pun in a very long time.