You know what, saying welcome is a form of saying hello, a thread where someone is saying I'm new here hello gets responses from people saying hello welcome to GTP. If you don't like it, tough don't go into the thread, but don't come in and start complaining about people being polite and friendly.
Exhorst, there really isn't anything wrong with welcoming newbies. 1000 people haven't said "Welcome to GTPlanet" yet. In fact, only 5 people, including me, have said "Welcome to GTPlanet".
If you absolutely hate 5 different people welcoming a newbie in a thread, then don't come to this thread anymore.
This isn't JUST a welcome page, the guys admitting he's addicted and sort of just put a "by the way, I'm new" in the post. About your addiction, I wish I was addicted like I was when the game first came out. I'm thinking of redoing the game (but not restarting) to refill on A-Spec points and maybe the spark of addiction will come back. And I think it's awesome that you are an addict, just as long as it's not drugs 👍