User blog comment:Rappy 4187/Technical Update: October 16, 2012/@comment-3441771-20121017032152

"&ldquo;The automatic welcome messages will no longer substitute templates contained inside the message.&rdquo;"

Why has this been done? I see a lot of new users writing their profiles underneath the text: "This is your user page. Please edit this page to tell the community about yourself!" :P