Though this may not be the best idea, there needs to be something that will actually catch a new members attention, but not like a pop up, or anything like that. Most would close it. I'm thinking more of....
*gasp*
"Introduction To The Oddworld Forums" forum made, to be at the top of Zulag one. This would just include basic information about searches, maybe a summarization of knowledge about new game information, some basic forum rules (with a link to the rules page for the more in depth things), and include the warning system and stuff. Person introductions could be made there instead (really, the subforum is hardly noticable), and since it would be right nest to General Discussion, most new people would see it, no? For the forum description, a nice, bold "THIS IS NOT TO DISCUSS ODDWORLD RELATED ISSUES" might do nicely also. With any luck (of course, who needs luck with my jeneyous brain) this can keep the stupid questions and wrong forum posts down to a minimum. If you wanted to, you could make the psots there not count, right? It seems like anything posted there probably wouldn't actually be of much importance.
*waits for Alcar to come and say theres too many forums as it is*
Though:-p You don't make all deciding factors.
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