If you don't care, then why are you getting so firey about it? My comment wasn't specifically about you... I used the word "some" and even bolded it because I expected it to be misinterpreted from the beginning.
I think it is great that people welcome the newbies.... but you said it was mostly the people who frequent the F&G section that do so. I pointed out that for SOME people it is not out of any great benevolance, but is simply another way to easily up their post count.
Why don't I take the time to do it? Because if I only have 20 minutes on the forum, I would rather take it to respond to someone's question in another area, than to go and "Welcome!" 20 people.
And "willing to argue" is more a turn of phrase than anything else. No reason to bring out the F-bombs.