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I've never started a birthday thread. I rarely scroll down that far. With the changes in staff personnel, we seem to have gotten more of us who start at TFP by hitting the "New Posts" link first - seriously, we had a thread on that in mod-land recently. So a lot of us don't even look that far down the board.
When I look at who starts birthday threads, it looks like more non-staff starts them historically - there are more of you after all. Sorry if that hurts any feelings, but for whatever reason, this is group-think, not any sort of staff memo that we've put out. I like birthday threads since I never know when someone's annual rotation around the sun is due to be noted and like to send those acknowledgements. The staffers that do notice such things without outside prompts thought it would be better to send personalized notes since it seems much more polite and special that way - I agree. So does Ms. Manners, for that matter. But if this is a big deal, then YOU folks start stepping up and restart the habit. You're all adults. You don't need the staff to do every little thing for you. Lord knows I wipe enough asses in my house already - two kids in diapers, after all - so I don't need to come here to treat you all like babies too.
Sorry if that's snarky, but if this is important to the community, how about the community handle it for a change? You know, to do the very least that you all could do?
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