Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-32704847-20200316092742

Hi, Fandom people

I've always found odd a bot creating messages on users' walls and signing as if it was an admin doing. I know it's a very common behavior on several types of platforms, but I an old style guy and I abominate damn bots disguised in humans.

So, when I became admin of a wiki, I set all welcome messages to be signed by user:FANDOM, and it worked well: new users know that I'm not writing them any message, as I probably don't even know they exist until I check the 'Recent Changes' page.

Now I want to customize that message (that says "none of the admins for this community are active right now"--which is not true) but I can't, as it's stored at.

I don't want to disable these messages. I want a bot to leave a simple welcome message as a bot. So I was thinking about:


 * 1) creating an account named "Something-bot"
 * 2) creating a profile page for that account explaing its goals
 * 3) using its username on MediaWiki:Welcome-user
 * 4) customizing the welcome-message from the bot as I want.

Are any of these steps considered a bad behavior or just not recommended for any reason?  