welcome

It's me, again, and so far the forums have been more helpful than the in-game /help tab. My question is: My [WELCOME] sign doesn't work so I'm guessing there is a requiremet/quest I need to finish before being able to use [WELCOME] signs, what is it?

Similar to Scrambler, I think there should be a reward for saying "Welcome!" to new players. By doing this we would encourage friendliness on the server towards new players. There is a group of us who always try to say welcome to a new player when we can, but when I'm afk while eating or busy...