User blog comment:Dopp/Giving User Profiles Some Love/@comment-93604-20110708092827/@comment-93604-20110712002048

People would appreciate getting the welcome message right away. One, they would know with more certainty that registration is working. They would have a user page sandbox to play in before making edits in articles. Most people need to play with the editor first. The Wikia RTE editor is unlike any other editor I know of. It has so many quirks. Most forum sites point people to their user pages after registration. Some people prefer to work on their user pages before venturing further. The success of Facebook is based on that in my opinion. Unlike some users commenting on this blog post, I see no problem with that. That is a problem with Wikia lately. This "one-size-fits-all" thing. Where some users or staff feel that most editors need to operate a certain way.