I am subscribed to the board, and I get an e-mail every time somebody posts a new topic. However, I now rarely post there because most of the time my post became, "Welcome, <insert username>, to the forums. I hope you enjoy! I for one am very glad you joined..." and so on. I would love to just be able to post hello and something short, but then all the new users would just have a topic filled very short replies that really don't give much information. I just really couldn't bother with making unique responses for new users, and didn't want to give some kind of canned response.
@ @Tacit Moon
I think you totally nailed it. I mean, I got a much better response from this community than I have in other communities, but overall, I felt that posting in introductions was more of a formality, and posted there mostly because I had no idea how active the members are here. Overall, it gave me a false impression about activity.