Well Sprony, I don't work in the industry so doesn't affect me directly and I would take into consideration what pros say. I thought about the "what's going on" solution as well and I guess would kinda work, but could be easily surmounted by the many more random life events. That topic has shitloads of pages too so I don't see the technical difference.
In the Italian gaming forum I follow, a constant topic like the "request for bans etc" in the private moderators area is restarted every year (old version is archived and you move onto the new one).