As they say: "There's nothing more permanent than a temporary solution." (I've personally seen it in the form of TODOs from 1998...) EDIT: Mind you, Mahz has to code in the restriction anyway, so it's vastly preferable if he does it right in one go, rather than makes an effort to do it this rather questionable way now and then later redoes it properly. (Also: People who have problems with introduction threads typically do not get to the point where they can even announce it. I could name at least one example, but won't, for the sake of their privacy. They only parttake in 1x1es and closed RPs wtih people they know, and being forced to make something like a public thread themselves could actually induce a panic attack if they didn't avoid such things like plague to begin with.)