Just a general pondering here, feel free to disagree with me, banish me, whatever... but I'm starting to think that there ought to be a whole new sub-forum for these kind of threads to make newbies feel welcome and birthday people feel special Lots of other Forum sites do it, including my native forum (UKAN).

My reasoning? well... I know it's nice to welcome people to the boards when they're new, or wish someone happy birthday, but am I the only one who's starting to find them a little annoying? I mean, they can't really be discussed and apart from the few people who say something mad and random to liven them up, people more or less repeat themselves throughout the whole thread. So... yeah... what do you think? Separate forum? or am I just mad :rolleyes2