Some research performed on Reddit suggests that a welcome message to new posters explaining community norms increases participation, which is nice and all but you still have to actually also reduce the abuse and harassment that keeps them from participating absent such a welcome message. Increasing participation through communicating expectations without also reducing the abuse just exposes more people to potential abuse.
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