[tag:status-thinking-about-it]

There should be a method to force the insertion of the *Welcome* message.
This can be required because some new users might have and account for 2-3 weeks already but just now started to post questions or answers. They might have found SE for, registered an account but then didn't returned for a while. Often these people still are new to the site and a *Welcome* message is appropriate, especially if it got changed to include a link to a special *Welcome* meta page (which I did for my site TeX.SE).