But the need for an entire FORUM dedicated to welcome posts doesn't exist. Why do we need topic after topic after topic of, "HI! I'm new! lolololol! what is up!?lolololololo!!!", when we can have ONE topic with all of those posts in there, and we can address ALL of the new members at ONE time. Say we aren't on for a day or two and we have like, say, 6-7 new members. Now, with the intro forum, we now have 6-7 topics to reply in and say the exact same thing. With the topic, we are making ONE reply, in ONE topic, and STILL getting to all the new members. It's called efficiency.