Designating "vintage" threads.

[Jerry]

To quote Mike1:

..."I agree, there's no need to welcome a member that joined two years ago. But we don't want to stop people from posting in threads that are relevant to their current situation or position".....

Perhaps, Welcoming new member threads could be made read only after, say, 30 days. My policy on posting in the welcoming threads is that if there are more than two pages in the thread, I don't post to it. That doesn't mean that the new member is unwelcome in my view, just that I don't feel that all of our several thousand members need to post welcome messages for every new member.

Here is another suggestion. Maybe a new position similar to the "House Chairman" could be created to welcome our new members Say, call them "official greeters" or something. They could post something like;

"On behalf of our forum administrators, moderators and our several thousand members, Welcome to Xmarks The Scot" Then the greeter could go on to explain the forums purpose and say something like please be sure to read our rules before posting to any other topic.