You'll get to know more people if you wander the board instead of making your welcome thread a forum all to itself.
You know where to find the political forums. There is also lightweight forums for easy chat and no fighting...like The Lounge where the Coffee Shop is and threads dedicated to just beautiful pics...or music threads. Then there is downstairs where its a free for all bashfest to whomever likes that sort of thing.
Meeting everyone in this one thread is going to be difficult to do unless this is what you want.
Just sayin'.