A number of threads recently have been started/raised/refreshed with the sole purpose of checking to see who's about and if anyone wants to chat. I can understand this, as sometimes you log on and there's no one logged on in the chatroom and there seems precious little point in entering the chatroom when there's no one else there. BUT since all these threads take up space and I (and probably others) are reluctant to either start up or post threads that are only to indicate that we are about at a particular time perhaps a better idea would be to have a "come to chat" permathread who'se only purpose is to say come chat, and that Max, Joe or elves can keep chopping so that it doesn't get big & take up space. It could be clearly marked as not a place to post anything you may want later as it is for temporary/ ephemeral posts which will be deleted within a very short time. I don't know how difficult this would be to set up or monitor or even if the deleting bit could be done automatically at set intervals it is as I said just a suggestion. But I'd be interested in hearing if it could be done and what others think.