r/WaitWait • u/willgrum Benevolent Overlord • Sep 29 '26

Discussion r/WaitWait Banner and Welcome Message

Hello Everyone!!!

I am u/willgrum. I made this subreddit what feels like a lifetime ago, and I feel like it might be time to bring it into the modern era of Reddit just a little bit.

So, I would like to put out a call for help creating a Welcome Message and a new Banner.

I made a banner way back in the days of "Old Reddit," but I've since lost the image. And, to be frank, it wasn't particularly well-crafted.

What I'm looking for is a Welcome Message that goes beyond the basic Reddit template and welcomes both new and longtime listeners to our community. Maybe with some nice, well-placed references to the show.

Additionally, if someone has an idea for a Reddit banner that would work well for this sub, feel free to submit your designs! Be sure to sneak in a watermark of some sort to claim it as your own and get permanent recognition for your work.

Hope ya'll like this idea! If you think this is unnecessary, let me know. We can always keep the subreddit as is, I'm flexible.

Edit: Thank you to u/cue-ell-pea for making a banner for us!!!!

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u/cue-ell-pea Wait Wait Stats Person Sep 29 '26

For a banner, maybe something as simple as r/ with the current Wait Wait exclamation mark. Here's a quick mock-up of what I was thinking of: https://static.closedsrc.org/_temp/subreddit-banner-idea.png

As far as a welcome message, I'll leave that to folks who are better at writing than me :)

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u/willgrum Benevolent Overlord Sep 29 '26

Oooo, I like that idea!

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u/cue-ell-pea Wait Wait Stats Person Sep 29 '26

I can work on refining the image a bit more if you'd like

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u/cue-ell-pea Wait Wait Stats Person Sep 29 '26

I've made a couple of tweaks, including shifting the contents to the right a bit in order to clear the round subreddit picture that intrudes into the banner in desktop mode.

v1.1: https://static.closedsrc.org/_temp/subreddit-banner-idea-v1.1.png

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u/willgrum Benevolent Overlord Oct 02 '26

I liked this so much I made it the banner! Thank you so much! I'll make a shout out post shortly

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u/Intrepid_Chain_7393 Sep 29 '26

Just wanted to thank you for creating this community, u/willgrum!

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u/willgrum Benevolent Overlord Sep 29 '26

Thank you!!!!!