Pawz has a good idea, and Jeff, if I may agree with the suggestion made here. Some time back I had suggested to Myriads about the idea of a non tickle image forum, to seperate tickling pictures from the non tickle ones. At first, he was cautious about it, and seemed to have to think it over a lot before agreeing to it. Now, the non tickle image forum is one of the most posted on sections in the entire TMF. It was a completely random idea that turned out great, and I think a similar circumstance could well come to exist in a congratulations forum.
Think of it: We all browse the General Discussion Forum, and everyone is always like "Congrats to this one or that one on their whatever feather", or you have people like me who trumpet their accomplishments of what feather level they have achieved. If, like Myriads did with the non tickle image forum, the admins seperate the congratulations forum, it can be in it's own little place, without having a thousand threads posted in the General Discussion forum, leaving room for other subjects and threads.
I sincerely hope that you and the other admins will consider the suggestion, Jeff, and choose to decide to create a new congratulations forum. I wholeheartedly believe it is a great idea.
Mitch