My comment will probably piss a lot of people off, but in my honest opinion? It's not that hard for people to just ignore a thread and move on. If you don't like a personal thread, so what? Just ignore the thread. It's not like this whole BP forum is "clogged" with personal threads anyways, so I think that "personal threads overtaking the forum" is a very, very poor argument. In fact, I think GiddyKitty, Bizi, and you (Beth) are the only ones in this BP forum who have personal threads that are active. I even counted how many threads are on one page here: 20. So if 3 people have personal threads on the front page, there are 17 other threads to look at. If you want more threads, go to the second page, or third, or fourth...

Edit: would people rather see someone make 20 threads, one each day, chronicling their life story... or would they rather the threads be condensed into one they can easily ignore? I mean, that is what would happen if personal threads are not allowed. Most people aren't going to clog up the check in thread.