Personally, I ignored all welcome messages that appeared to be bots or copy + paste replies (Sorry @brittandjosie lol) when I joined. Now, that may have been to my detriment on this platform, since RC, VP, ETC are all foreign concepts to a blogging/social media platforms, but it happened. And I'm going to bet it happens a lot.
Nobody likes spam, and I don't think that spam makes the platform look good.
Hahaha non offence taken but the indeed we do them manually but that’s a choice , we like to get friends in the Discord and most stay. 😉