User blog comment:TwoBearsHigh-Fiving/Welcoming Newcomers to Your Community/@comment-5558012-20130918185351/@comment-5558012-20130918212404

The messages can be edited with all this information without need for a bot. I have the messages edited where it's clear where the policy and helpful resources on the wiki can be found. Others highlight policy via their forum. Guidelines can help, but when you have guidelines for everything, who wants to spend an hour reading them all. Especially when they get very detailed, it can become too much to remember and people don't want to edit as a result. I do this all the time. If they're too many to remember, I'm gone. Plain and simple. I'm not saying no guidelines are better but that they should be limited.